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From Slovakia with love

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2008
Once regarded as a Bohemian backwater, Slovakia has become one of the most stellar perfoming economies of east-central Europe courtesy of policy reform, foreign investment and robust industrial expansion. The Slovak economy bucked the slowdown experienced ...

Unemployment rises to 4.1 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2008
The latest unemployment figures just released by the ABS fuel hopes that the economy might be finally slowing. The ABS has just reported that unemployment has increased by 0.1 percentage points to 4.1 per cent in seasonally adjusted terms. But the shift ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2008
The Australian share market was lower at noon, dragged down by consumer confidence figures at their lowest level in almost 15 years. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 10.6 points lower at 5560.9, while the All Ordinaries had fallen 11.8 ...

Pension funds look in-house for governance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2008
... maintained a bias towards equities, with an average of 58 per cent of portfolios invested in the asset class. However, this figure has fallen from 68 per cent back in 2003, suggesting that the 70/30 rule of investing is slowly being phased out. "This ...

Franklin Templeton launches EM fund

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2008
... seek long-term capital growth by investing primarily into securities of companies situated in emerging markets. Industry figure Mark Mobius has been appointed the fund's lead portfolio manager and will be supported by over 30 portfolio managers and analysts ...

Govt to cut 'lost super' red tape

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2008
Federal minister for superannuation and corporate law, Nick Sherry, has announced plans to reduce the hassle behind finding lost super accounts by rationalising the register. Sherry said lost super accounts represented roughly one in five of all superannuation ...

Direct property shines in NFP funds

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2008
Not-for-profit super funds have continued to outperform over the past year as a result of their high allocations to direct property, according to Rainmaker Information. "Our research has shown not-for-profit funds have increased their lead because of ...

Further regulation not needed: Nelson

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2008
Federal Opposition leader Brendan Nelson said there is no need for further regulation on the stock market and non-bank lenders following Tricom and Opes Prime's problems. Speaking at a Financial Services Institute of Australasia (Finsia) luncheon, Nelson ...

When good housing news is bad

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2008
After months of share market swings, interest rate rises and petrol price jumps, news that house prices might climb 40 per cent over the next five years didn't quite get the reception you would have expected. Instead it just showed how bad the outlook ...

CARE joins Carbon Disclosure Project

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2008
CARE Super lobbies for better climate change policies after being the latest signatory to the Carbon Disclosure Project. Carbon Disclosure Project is a global not-for-profit group of 385 institutional investors that actively obtain information on company's ...