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PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2006
... trade surpluses for sixteen years. While exports have been growing at about 30 per cent for years this is not seen as sustainable as world trade growth has been around the 7 per cent mark for some years. In 2006 China will produce about 420 million tonnes ...

Corporate tax needs to be more competitive: KPMG

... highest corporate tax burdens within the OECD (which comprises many highly taxed, low growth European economies) is sustainable if we are to attract overseas investment, particularly given our geographic location in the dynamic high growth Asia Pacific ...

Retiring at 65 unsustainable: Bernard Salt

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2006
... bestselling author, speaking at Canberra Business Council annual dinner, said, "The retirement age of 65 years is no longer sustainable because after people have paid off their HECS debt and paid off a decent proportion of their mortgage they really ...

ANZ gets into the sustainable investment game

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 13 OCT 2006
ANZ has launched its first sustainable investment product, the ANZ Sustainable Protected Responsible Investment over Term (ASPRIT), designed to give wholesale investors access to leading sustainably operated companies. ASPRIT is a six year investment ...

SRI needs clarification: Finsia

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 22 SEP 2006
... Australasia (Finsia) has released new research showing that investors would be more comfortable channelling money into sustainable responsible investment if the sector demystified its messages. Specifically, the research conducted by ANOP revealed that ...

RetireInvest to focus on aged care

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2006
... work with prospective aged care residents, offering them advice on issues of the value of the accommodation bond, sustainable income streams and understanding their financial position. "Moving a loved one into an aged care facility is a big change for ...

Macq talks up its quiet achiever in geared property

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 4 SEP 2006
... with predictable, secure rental based income characteristics, we seek to ensure the leveraged element of MPIF is a sustainable feature that will continue to boost investors' income returns going forward," Andrews said. "We would over the long term expect ...

NZ Super Fund scores big but cautions on the future

... than expected returns for the third year in a row but has cautioned that its current level of performance will not be sustainable over the long term. The NZ fund, the equivalent to Australia's Future Fund, posted a 19.2 per cent return for 2005-06 after ...

SAM picks up a Mercer principal

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 7 AUG 2006
Simon Romijn has left Mercer Investment Consulting to take up a role with the Sustainable Asset Management Group (SAM). Romijn will join SAM as a business development manager responsible for SAM's existing Australian and New Zealand clients as well ...

Westpac offloads $300bn sub-custody business to HSBC

... owners require global scale. Accordingly, this sale continues our focus of only running businesses where we can have a sustainable comparative advantage," said David Morgan, Westpac's chief executive. The group said that all custody employees will be ...