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Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 15 FEB 2007
... housing affordability was at a historic low at a time when the debt servicing obligations of households have reached a two decade high. House Price Index data has just been released by the ABS showing that over the year to last December the weighted ...

New deputy governor for RBA

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 FEB 2007
Treasurer Peter Costello has announced the appointment of a new deputy governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) to fill the role left by the promotion of former deputy Glenn Stevens to the role of governor. After more than three decades in various ...

MFAA rules under fire

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2007
... that could be a case of misleading and deceptive conduct." The MFAA has 12,500 members, up from 2,500 at the start of the decade.

Global pension fund assets hit A$30 trillion

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2007
Global institutional pension fund assets in the 11 major markets have more than doubled over the past decade to reach A$30 trillion, according to Watson Wyatt's Global Pension Assets Study. Roger Urwin, global head of investment consulting at Watson ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 30 JAN 2007
... mix of results about the world's second largest economy which although it is generally accepted to be recovering from a decade long trough still needs to provide investors with a more consistent set of economic signals to be seen as truly recovered. ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2007
... Newcastle University concludes that while the western suburbs of Sydney have been apparently enjoying good times for about a decade, there is a certain degree of fragility about that wealth creation. Professor Mitchell found that the south-west and western ...

UK funds earn 8.8 per cent

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JAN 2007
... early years of this century." Some of the better funds have even clawed back most of the losses from the earlier in the decade and are up 30 per cent or more, he said. For UK pension funds however, good returns may be encouraging but the real problem ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JAN 2007
... the government claiming that its investment in higher education has increased by a quarter in real terms over the last decade as a proportion of GDP and is now at levels comparable with France and Britain. The Labour party has noted that Australia is ...

Equities the pick of the pack in 2007: Russell

NICK OLIVER  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2007
... consumer spending, however recession should be avoided due to a healthy US corporate sector. Most of the global expansion this decade has been financed by retained earnings rather than debt, creating a strong profit, low leverage corporate environment ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2007
... citing a report by the OECD which says that Australia's spending on higher education has fallen by 7 per cent over the last decade while there was an increase by 48 per cent amongst our competitors. The OECD notes that our productivity could be about ...