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CFS takes infrastructure to the front line

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2008
... the sector. Meany said there are many investors who have made "good money" in property over the last 10 years. In recent times, many have faced difficulty in that space and are now looking for investments such as infrastructure that generate stable income. ...

Mortgage arrears hit all-time high

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2008
... arrears measures means borrowers are more than 30 days late on payments. Arrears level for sub-prime Australian loans is ten times higher at 14.7 per cent, reported S&PRS. Sub-prime loans in Australia however only make up a tiny minority of the mortgage ...

Housing affordability report fails to deliver

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2008
... more devastating, a lesson the country surely learned when the $14,000 home owner post-GST grant fuelled price rises many times higher than the size of the grant. The most useful recommendations from the report are that Treasury investigate whether Australia ...

Another take on LPTs

... multiple applied to them. "With hindsight we can see that when the market was applying price-earnings multiples of more than 20 times then a traditionally conservative investment vehicle was really being aggressively priced, and in the end that wasn't ...

Liquidnet trading reaches $1 billion

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2008
... been the most successful launch of any of its 29 markets worldwide with trade sizes averaging $1.8 million or more than 100 times the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) average. "The Australian buy side community has jumped at the opportunity to anonymously ...

Oil speculators push up prices 50 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2008
... OPEC Secretary General Abdullah al-Badri told Reuters that oil speculation is so extreme daily trading volumes are now 15 times bigger than actual demand. "Supply and demand have nothing to do with oil prices," he said. The "paper market" for oil is ...

Macq bond insurance will diversify group

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2008
... diversification strategy, says Moody's Investor Services. Eric Dinallo, New York's state insurance superintendent, told The New York Times he has been discussing the deal with Macquarie since April and that he welcomes their interest in the bond insurance ...

Finding integrity in finance

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2008
... growing industry in a very attractive part of the economy. Attractive because we serve the needs of many Australians who at times of their lives would be at their most vulnerable and the advice they get can make the biggest difference - be it in risk ...

Population hits 21.2 million

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2008
... therefore accounted for 44 per cent of our population change. Viewed another way, net inward migration is one-and-a-half times what is required to replace the people in Australia who die. The commodities boom is causing huge distortions in the State ...

AIG Life promotes two

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2008
... looking to them and other reputable bodies to use our funding for the maximum benefit of the Chinese people in these difficult times. "Staff around the world are also being given the opportunity to directly contribute to the China effort knowing that ...