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Asian hub Australia's next goal: MLC

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2007
Australia's financial services industry is of global calibre and should be aiming to become the southern hemisphere's primary financial hub, according to MLC chief executive, Steve Tucker. "Financial services has the capacity to do for Australia what ...

Economic round-up: Infrastructure - sink or swim?

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2007
Weakness in our infrastructure just wont go away as a new report by the Prime Minister's chief scientific panel warns that climate changes are presenting further challenges to infrastructure and the future of our economy. Independent think tank, CEDA ...

Economic round-up: Circle your wagons

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2007
... coal are lying idle throughout the state while earlier this week 51 ships were queued for a backlog of coal that Queensland Rail has been unable to move to the port. Meanwhile Australia's leading coal mining companies are warning that bottlenecks at ...

Allco opens door to Malaysia

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2007
... brings its structured asset finance and funds management skills and expertise and experience in the core asset classes of rail, aviation, property, shipping and infrastructure, which are complemented by CIMB Group's innovative product solutions particularly ...

Economic round- up: Cutting the apron strings

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAY 2007
It would be an understatement to say that Australian banks have been doing well, but there are increasing murmurs among banking analysts that the market is overpriced and exposed to an increased risk of bad debts. While so far this year Australian banks ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2007
The local market will likely take direction from New York, despite base metals heading lower on the London Metal Exchange. At 0803 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June share price index contract was up 34 points to 6,341, on a volume of 1,855 ...

Starved infrastructure will bite into growth

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2007
Opposition Leader, Kevin Rudd, played the political magician last night by pulling some surprising economic and political rabbits out of the hat, but there's still no talk of feeding our starved infrastructure any time soon. If anyone was wondering ...

Get outta town

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2007
... beautiful harbour, NSW Premier Morris Iemma warned residents staying put to expect to be "significantly inconvenienced." Rail and road closures, ferry cancellations, as well as city lock-downs are what can be expected for those who decide not to clear-off ...

Vanguard puts case for passive-active allocation

An asset allocation expert from leading index manager Vanguard has put forward the case for a portfolio construction model that invests around 40 per cent in active strategies. In a whistlestop visit to Australia, Nelson Wicas, a US based principal ...

Attitude determines financial altitude: Plum

... offer members in terms of educational materials, a stubborn 40 per cent of members won't plan for retirement. Rather than rail against this, or worse, just speak to the 60 per cent that do listen, we have come up with a program that caters to these individuals ...