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Markets down, national happiness in positive territory

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2008
Despite the increasing focus on economics and financial markets, Australians don't seem much happier now than they were before, reveals the latest Australian Unity Wellbeing Report. The index, which has been operating since 2001, measures the "subjective ...

Rents to jump 50 pct, inflation to hit 4 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2008
Australian residential property is overvalued and primed for a price correction, according the International Monetary Fund (IMF), meanwhile housing supply is in such demand that rents are projected to jump 50 per cent. The rental price jump predicted ...

US dominoes keep falling

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2008
Even though the bad news keeps coming for the US economy, the real economy is holding up remarkably well, perhaps too well. Ben Bernanke yesterday told US Congress that economic conditions are getting worse as the sub-prime contagion spreads from the ...

Hard landing if we don't heed RBA warnings

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2008
The Reserve Bank's (RBA) increasingly hawkish attitude to smashing inflation presents risks of a hard landing in 2009 if consumers don't quickly moderate their spending. "With interest rates going higher and higher the risk that they go too high - if ...

Councils take action on CDOs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR AND RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2008
Rage and accusations are now rearing their ugly heads as embattled councils attempt to recoup their losses from sub-prime backed CDO investments, but the crisis could spark a government rethink on how councils should invest their funds. Hugh McLernon ...

Fighting inflation to make housing affordability worse

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2008
Housing affordability just seems to get worse, and our anti-inflationary strategies look set to make it worse. According to the Housing Industry Association (HIA), even despite slowing house prices last year, housing affordability still sunk to yet ...

CFS engages Innovest for ESG research

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2008
... Innovest has welcomed CFS GAM's initiatives to integrate material ESG risks across their investments. "[CFS GAM's] moves echo those that we have seen from leading European fund managers over the last couple of years," said Innovest managing director ...

Asia marching on faster than expected

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2007
Growing intra-region trade within emerging markets is pushing Asia to the centre of world financial affairs faster than we realise. "Fifty per cent of all world trade now has an Asian leg," said Craig Weeks, senior vice president of global trade services ...

Consumers worry about value, not fees

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2007
A new survey has re-affirmed that fees aren't a problem for consumers but perceptions of being overcharged and underserviced are. The latest survey conducted by the Neilson research group for ING found clients will pay for quality advice as long as ...

Investors better off without legacy

Three months after the government issued a consultation paper outlining ways to rationalise more than 6,000 legacy investment products, industry body Investment and Financial Services Association has submitted its own list of recommendations. Back in ...