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They will, they won't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2009
... the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) holds its regular monthly Board meeting. Will they, won't they? The RBA lowered the country's official cash rate to an even 3 per cent last month. This represented a total reduction of 425 basis points since September ...

Shareholder claims hike D&O costs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2009
... growth of securities class actions," said Linda Murphy, a partner with legal firm Colin Biggers & Paisley. Murphy said the country is unlikely to see litigation levels seen in the US, where there were more than 250 securities class actions filed in the ...

Pockets of income in property

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2009
... problems experienced by other cities following the global financial crisis. "If you look at the vacancy rates across the country, the average vacancy rates have actually decreased here...it is the only CBD in Australia where the vacancy rates have decreased ...

Sick of swines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2009
... holidaying pigs to rest, I noted in The Age's report about swine flu that of the reported 152 deaths in Mexico - the source country - '... 20 have been confirmed as swine flu.' Yes, only 20. The report added that '...so far no one has died outside Mexico' ...

Govt drafts new credit regime

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2009
... jail time. Sherry said the new regime would reduce the compliance burden for the financial services industry. He said the country's credit legislation would be more streamlined under regime instead of around 2,500 pages of individual state and territory ...

REST deploys $300m mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2009
... good returns over the next three to five years," Hill said. REST is among the top ten performing industry funds in the country. For their default option they ranked 10th over 1-year and 7th over a 3-year period, according to SelectingSuper.

Too much ado about pig flu

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2009
... almost immediately (during the SARS outbreak in 2003, China's Ministry of Health tried to conceal reported cases in the country). Like SARS and many others before it, the swine flu would be contained and it would not end the world. So instead of hitting ...

Rated AAA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2009
... medium term. My, oh my, I am so scared. And so we all should be. Because the immediate consequence of a downgrade in a country's risk rating would be that we pay higher interest rates for our borrowings. Money that could be used for more productive pursuits ...

Frontier hires analyst

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2009
... Chris Coulhurst as an analyst in the infrastructure division in August 2008. Frontier Investment Consulting is one of the country's largest asset consultancies with around $90 billion in funds under advice.

Timbercorp calls in administrators

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2009
One of the country's largest agribusiness managers, Timbercorp, is the latest victim of the market crisis, calling in the administrators after efforts to sell some assets to repay debts on time failed. Timbercorp's revenue prospects have been hurt by ...