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Seeking six figures online

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2008
... is designed to break away from traditional "direct match hiring" models. The website will act as a conduit, bringing six-figure salary job hunters in contact with businesses looking for new recruits, including those from the financial services sector. ...

Stagflation cross-winds

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2008
Cutting growth forecasts (due to looming recession) in one breath while raising inflation forecasts in the next: It's this painful mix of announcements by the Federal Reserve (the Fed) - amid rising producer prices, falling consumer confidence and sharply ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2008
... a seasonally adjusted 0.6 per cent in the December quarter, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said. Analysts said the figure had already been factored into a very volatile share market. ABN AMRO Morgans director of equities Bill Chatterton said the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2008
Australian stocks are expected to fall again when the market opens following more losses on Wall Street and a negative start by the Sydney Futures Exchange, although base metals were substantially higher. Yesterday, investors wiped off $38.5 billion ...

Coordinated policy will boost population and capacity

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2008
Boosting economic capacity means we need people and need people to have babies, but government policy to encourage this requires better integration. The Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS) just released a major review titled Fertility and ...

Future Fund on the defense

The $51 billion Future Fund has dipped its toes in the equity and property markets but the bulk of its portfolio remains in cash, the fund's latest investment update reveals. The 31 January update released today shows that 8.8 per cent of the fund's ...

AWU campaigns for opt-in super

The Australian Workers' Union national secretary Paul Howes has called on the Federal Government to allow Australian voters the option to direct their tax cuts into their super fund. In an articled published in today's Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne ...

Platinum posts 29pc profit

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2008
Platinum Asset Management yesterday announced a 29 per cent boost in net profit after income tax for the half year ending 31 December, the same period when its Asia Fund was its top performer. The firm's total revenue increased 2.5 per cent to reach ...

BNY Mellon pursues advisers

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2008
... under management, so [our current] $25 billion AUM in Australia is not a statistically significant number. [The $25 billion figure] is more like a symbolic commitment to the marketplace, and that's why we're looking to amp up our presence through the ...

Count down to lower H2 revenue

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 14 FEB 2008
Count Financial may have pocketed a neat $10.74 million in after-tax profits for the second half of 2007, but the firm makes no pretense in warning that the figures will be anything but rosy for the same time this year. Count Financial reported a net ...