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Alternatives go mainstream

Alternative investments are increasingly becoming mainstream, with 86 per cent of global institutional investors revealing plans to add hedge fund managers to their current portfolios and 67 per cent planning to hire private equity managers. The figures ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAR 2006
The Australian share market is expected to open firmer as a positive lead from the US sets the tone for the domestic bourse. However, base metals were a bit weaker overnight, which could cap resource stocks. On the Sydney Futures Exchange, the June ...

Super fund taxes break through $5 billion

Total taxation revenue collected by all levels of government in Australia climbed to $230 billion in 2004-05, of which only $5.1 billion was paid by super funds. Super fund taxes, however, have only climbed 8.5 per cent since 200-01, which is significantly ...

Bird flu pandemic risk could strike insurers

... sectors for the time being. Based on other published research, Fitch estimates that, should a pandemic hit, the mortality figure could be around 400,000 in Europe and 209,000 in the US and reinsurers are likely to bear the brunt of the increased risk. ...

Five out of six Australians lack income protection: CommInsure

... that it's possible to protect your income from as little as $2 a day - or basically a cup of coffee," he added. The actual figure can be less than that because income protection policies are tax deductible. Swanson noted that the insurance industry faces ...

Weekly economic round-up

There were again no significant economic reports released out of Australia last week but the minor ones that did see print were indicative of the moderate growth outlook for the local economy. For instance, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) ...

Daily economic update

Australian manufacturing production is up in the March quarter, while new motor vehicles sales were down. The Australian Industry Group (AIG)/PriceWaterhouseCoopers(PwC) latest quarterly survey of Australian manufacturing production showed that companies ...

Daily Economic Update

... Group reported that Mortgage Equity Withdrawals (MEW) was a hefty US$883 billion in the third quarter of last year. This figure explained the resilience of US consumer spending as American's use their increased housing wealth as ATMs. Remember that former ...

Daily economic update

US retail sales dropped by 1.3 per cent in February with ex autos falling by 0.4 per cent. Expectations were for a decline of 0.8 per cent and 0.5 per cent, respectively. January sales figures were revised up to show a rise of 2.9 per cent from a gain ...

Daily economic update

... Japan's economy expanded by a faster than expected 5.4 per cent (annualised) in the fourth quarter. The revised growth figure compares with market expectations of a 5 per cent rise but is down from the 5.5 per cent initially reported by the Cabinet Office. ...