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Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2006
Pressure will be on the Reserve Bank of Australia to increase interest rates tomorrow when it meets. Last weeks announcement that building approvals by municipal councils rose by 6.1 per cent in September to produce a year on year growth in total dwellings ...

Former NAB adviser gets 8 years

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2006
A former National Australia Bank (NAB) financial planner has been jailed for eight years for dishonesty and fraud relating to nearly $6 million of misappropriated funds. Following an Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) investigation ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2006
Notes on the Australian System of National Accounts released yesterday showed that while GDP increased by 2.8 per cent in 2005-06, GDP per capita increased by 1.5 per cent. The household savings ratio, which has been on a downward spiral for three decades ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 NOV 2006
The release of the financial aggregates data for September by the RBA yesterday showed that borrowing by businesses and households has slowed in line with expectations as the cost of capital has moved up a couple of times during the last year and is ...

Schroders welcomes new head of sales

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 24 OCT 2006
Schroder Investment Management Australia has appointed Brian Scott to the newly created position of head of sales. Scott will step into the role on 16 November and the appointment is the fourth senior appointment to be made by Schroders in the past ...

QSuper ploughs $2b into derivatives and swaps

Super fund QSuper has taken the extraordinary step of investing around $2 billion in derivative and swap contracts that mimic the performance of inflation-linked bonds as an alternative to buying the real thing. As the name suggests, inflation-linked ...

Korchinski steps down as head of AAS

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 20 OCT 2006
Stuart Korchinski has stepped down as the head of Australian Administration Services (AAS) after Telstra sold the business to Link Market Services at the end of August. AAS, the superannuation administration arm of Telstra's KAZ Group, was sold to Link ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 20 OCT 2006
Just released ABS data on sales of new motor vehicles shows an increase in September in seasonally adjusted terms by 3.0 per cent over the August figure. However, sales are still 3 per cent below their level of a year ago. With the ABS tables it can ...

Westpac appoints new REIT manager

Lianne Buck has left her post as fund manager of the newly launched Westpac Residential Property Trust (WRPT) and has been replaced through an internal promotion. Buck resigned due to personal reasons, with her partner accepting a job overseas. Taking ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 13 OCT 2006
The release of monthly Australian Bureau of Statistics employment data yesterday revealed that in September about 31,400 jobs were added to the economy, taking the total to 271,000 over the last year. However, the number of people unemployed has dropped ...