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Brumbie: The only Budget numbers that matter

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2007
... actually gets. In 1950s post-war Australia the Immigration Minister actually had more status than the Treasurer. In those times Budgets used to be delivered and hardly anyone noticed. Those were the days.

Not easy being green

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2007
... towards reducing methane emissions. The United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization recently reported that methane - 23 times more potent than carbon dioxide as a heat-trapping gas - is not only produced by livestock flatulence, but a combination ...

Good times to keep rolling for investors

... also a stand out sector with the ASX 300 INDEX up over 20 per cent during the year. "Another way at looking at the good times investors have had is the fact that from a rolling 12 month historical return perspective, you would have to go back 46 Months ...

Consulting the cows

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2007
... chose only corn from the buffet, which apparently isn't good news. But economic predictions are a gamble at the best of times and along with economists, Cambodia's royal cows haven't always proved accurate - they didn't predict Chevron's reportedly huge ...

Public equity under pressure

... willing to take a punt on," he said. For example, Western Australian Newspapers saw its PE multiple reach as high as 49 times in the last year compared to a low of 16 times and Adelaide Bank on more than 18 times versus 16 times and Bank of Queensland ...

Hillross hiring

... both report to Hillross' head of distribution, Ray Djani, who said these appointments represented the beginning of exciting times for the financial planning group. "Many of the financial planning practices within Hillross are developing into complex ...

Magellan next gen boutique

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2007
... infrastructure opportunities. But unlike traditional boutique manufacturers that focus exclusively upon portfolio management with at times minimal in-house support, MFG is sufficiently capitalised to already have an analyst based in New York while they ...

BlackRock accumulating mandates

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2007
... specially tailored for the Australian market. "The other reason there has been so much interest in our business in recent times is that the market has come to appreciate the benefits of tax aware investing. Nearly all of our new institutional client ...

New Jersey Govt spends teachers' future fund

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2007
... officials that funds had been appropriately processed, Treasury representatives admitted in a recent interview with the New York Times that the actual contribution for the teachers' fund for 2005 was zero, despite an official statement of a US$551 million ...

Members should update binding beneficiaries: ASFA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 26 MAR 2007
... In response to rising trustee concerns on the topic, especially given complexities around negotiated familial tensions at times of member bereavement, ASFA has produced a Best Practice Paper on Death Benefits in conjunction with the Superannuation Complaints ...