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Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 5 DEC 2006
The three interest rate hikes this year in May, August and November have taken their toll on the housing industry, according to the latest figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Building approvals data shows that on a seasonally adjusted ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 4 DEC 2006
New evidence about the state of the US economy suggests that the soft landing scenario that most have been expecting is showing signs of being a little harder than anticipated. The Institute for Supply Management's manufacturing index decreased from ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 NOV 2006
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open stronger today as US markets ended higher and as rising energy prices promise to buoy shares of major mining companies. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0816 AEDT, the December share price index contract ...

Schroders beefs up distribution

During November Schroders appointed Brian Scott as head of sales and Stephen Kwa as their new marketing manager and are looking to hire even more staff to expand their distribution arm. The group has been on the recruitment trail since the start of ...

Size pushes IXIS to close global credit fund

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 27 NOV 2006
IXIS Asset Management is closing its Loomis Sayles Credit Opportunities Fund, just a year after launching the fund in Australia, after it broke through $750 million in assets. Karyn West, IXIS managing director, said the way the fund operates switching ...

ASIC shadow shop draws zero consumer complaints

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 NOV 2006
The way this year's adviser shadow shop survey was played up around the media and by critics of financial advisers implied massive structural problems with the advice industry, so why then has it drawn zero consumer complaints? Responding to the fall-out ...

Daily Economic Round Up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 16 NOV 2006
The returns to the house prices of the Australian capital cities has shown a weighted average return over the year to September of 9.5 per cent of which Western Australia property values increased a staggering 45.9 percent, Darwin a healthy 17.3 and ...

Smart 401(k) plan design boosts their take-up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 NOV 2006
Research from the US-based Investment Company Institute (ICI) reveals smart 401(k)s plan design is a big factor in their take up. "Research generally indicates that offering employer matching contributions or a loan provision increases participation. ...

Back the winning horse, all the time

Citigroup compared it to "choosing the horse after the race has run" when it launched a product that gives investors a pick from three multi-asset portfolios but the returns of the top performing portfolio, whether the investor chose it or not. 'Optimiser ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 7 NOV 2006
The ANZ job series released yesterday showed the number of major newspaper and internet job ads rose by 5.8 per cent in October to an average of more than 195,000 per week, 25.3 per cent higher a year ago. The earlier September increase of 0.3 per cent ...