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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 ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 12 OCT 2006
The possibility of an interest rate rise at the next meeting of the RBA increased last night when the governor, Dr Glenn Stevens, mentioned that the September quarter CPI figure due on 25 October would be a linch pin in the decision. Dr Stevens said ...

Daily economic round-up

ALFRED SINN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 OCT 2006
Financial markets across the world have held up reasonably well despite North Korea's nuclear tests that sent shockwaves across global financial markets on Monday. Most markets recovered by Tuesday and the US Dow Jones Industrial Index reached its record ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 OCT 2006
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open slightly firmer today following further gains on Wall Street but held back by a fall in some commodity prices. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0733 AEST, the December share price index contract was down ...