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Australia number 1 in managed funds

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2008
... management index, Australians boast an average of $63,794 invested in managed funds - a long way ahead of the US ($43,458), France ($37,451) and Sweden ($24, 567). On average, Australians invest nearly 47 per cent more into managed funds compared with ...

Who cares about the US, it's Asia that matters

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2008
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has just released an analysis of how Australia's international trade profile has changed since Federation, confirming just how much our world has changed and why Asia and not the US is what drives our economy. ...

BRICs to surge as G7 slows

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2007
While developing countries like China and India are set for continued strong economic growth, developed countries should brace for a slowdown, albeit a moderate one, said the OECD. According to the OCED, their latest composite leading indicators (CLIs) ...

Retirement on hold for longer

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2007
Electoral backlash or not, fiscal pressures and demographic change are forcing nations around the world to slowly raise their retirement age and while Australians won't openly admit it just yet, we will soon have to follow suit. Tim Jenkins, Mercer's ...

Australia versus economic escargot

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2007
France may be broke according to its Prime Minister, who has been airing his financial dirty linen in Corsica, but Australia by all reports is a fiscal high achiever. During a trip to Corsica, France's Prime Minister, Francois Fillon made the unpopular ...

European property the next big game: Perennial

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2007
Europe's listed property markets are set to be a key growth sector in the coming years due to their highly diversified nature, low starting base and the introduction of REITs, according to managing director and portfolio manager of Perennial Real Estate ...

Economic round up: GDP vs. gross domestic happiness

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2007
There's just no pleasing some people. Consumer optimism has fallen despite another drop in unemployment and our continuing material and economic prosperity, showing that happiness is clearly not rising with our material success. According to a recent ...

Overseas direct property grows four-fold

... "Investments were also made in Belgium (6 per cent), the UK (3 per cent), Poland (2 per cent), the Netherlands (2 per cent) and France (1 per cent) over this time." In Asia, Hong Kong was the most popular choice accounting for 12 per cent of investor ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JAN 2007
Consumer Price Index data has just been released by the ABS showing that inflation is now running at 3.3 per cent on an annual basis, above the Reserve Bank's target range of 2-3 per cent. The CPI did, however, decrease from the September to the December ...

More countries sign up for REITs

The US$1.03 trillion global real estate investment trust (REIT) sector is poised for further growth with UK and Germany setting up REIT-like investment structures next year and other countries such as Italy, Finland, Mexico and Spain considering it. ...