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Tawrrific APEC and the Berlin Wall

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2007
The APEC party is getting under way but unless you're one of the 21 world leaders or part of the entourage, don't expect an invite. Organisers have for months been sending out not-so-subtle hints for locals to stay away or better still just leave town ...

IMF blames the world

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2007
While the Federal Treasurer insists Australia's inflation remains within RBA targets, the International Monetary Fund warns central banks must tighten fiscal policies as global growth accelerates. In a July update to its 2007 World Economic Outlook ...

A smoking gun for the RBA

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2007
A pre-poll rate hike could be a shot across the bow of the coalition's election campaign love-boat, however a sooner rather than later approach to monetary tightening might make less of a splash. With second quarter headline inflation surging past the ...

QSuper champions fin literacy

... the Queensland Government, will roll out a host of initiatives that will help improve the financial literacy of its 470,000-odd members, including the largely overlooked Gen X and Gen Y segments. A major supporter of the Financial Literacy Foundation ...

HOSTPLUS tailors fin lit to Gen X and Gen Y

Industry super fund HOSTPLUS is forging a new path to reach its Gen X and Gen Y super fund members, launching a financial literacy program specifically for 20 to 30-somethings. This month, the fund partnered with Scott Pape, author of the bestseller ...

Qld investors like it hot

NICK OLIVER  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2007
Queenslanders have the biggest appetite for risk when it comes to investing, according to research undertaken by Aviva. The research was based on inflows into the Navigator platform on a state by state basis. Queensland investors had the highest risk ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 NOV 2006
Evidence of the softening of consumer demand comes with the latest sales of new motor vehicles data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics which shows that on a national seasonally adjusted basis sales grew by only 2.9 per cent. The most growth occurred ...

Retiring at 65 unsustainable: Bernard Salt

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2006
... today is only modern phenomenon. "As recently as 1928, life expectancy for an Australian worker was only 63 years. But the odd thing is that you qualified for the age pension at 65 years, meaning that it was really quite irrelevant," said Salt. Indeed ...

Ban default super funds: FPA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 OCT 2006
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has called for default super fund selections to be banned because they block consumers from developing customised retirement strategies. Speaking at the first day of public hearings in Sydney for the Parliamentary ...

ACCC should regulate fund advertising: IFSA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 9 OCT 2006
Regulation of super fund advertising should be taken away from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and handed to the competition regulator the Australian Consumer and Competition Commission (ACCC), said the Investment and Financial ...