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Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 16 OCT 2006
... having reached record highs in the last week and tin being its highest for nearly two decades. Wheat has also reached a decade long high and this has come at a time when global output is expected to fall by more than 5 per cent this year to its lowest ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 13 OCT 2006
... immigrants. Encouraging news is that about three-quarters of the jobs added have been full-time which bucks the trend of the last decade or so. Consequently in seasonally adjusted terms the last year has seen a 2.7 per cent increase in employed persons ...

More growth through structured products and MAs

Structured products and managed or wrap accounts are the next cornerstones of the global investment funds sector, according to an on-the-spot poll of fund managers and other industry participants at the SIBOS conference held this week. The majority ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 29 SEP 2006
... three unemployed people for every job vacancy as opposed to about double that figure a year ago and ten times that amount a decade or so ago. Trend estimates show that there was a 4.1 per cent increase in private sector jobs and a 2.0 per cent increased ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 26 SEP 2006
... which wheat is forecast to drop by 35 per cent, barley by 41 per cent and canola is expected to be the smallest crop in a decade. The net result is an overall fall in farm production by 45 per cent. Counteracting this is the expected increase in the ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 SEP 2006
... Australia is expected to reduce the forthcoming crop by about 36 per cent or $3.2 billion to make it the second smallest in a decade. The harvest shortfall will negatively impact upon national export levels, the federal budget surplus and it will slow ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 19 SEP 2006
... through Monash University showed that about an additional 270,000 technically skilled people would be needed over the next decade. The current meeting of the IMF has all but agreed to strengthen the voting rights of China, South Korea, Turkey and Mexico ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 12 SEP 2006
... professionals and other categories staying approximately the same. However, the intake of managers has about halved over the decade according to available data. Applications are typically assessed within 10 to 20 days although some take six months. The ...

FOHF giving way to single manager multi-strategy funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2006
... return strategies at State Street Global Advisors, said, "As hedge fund returns have retreated from their peak over the last decade, the double fees funds of funds charge for their services have come under greater scrutiny." This has also forced some ...

Two key roles filled for ipac

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2006
... to fill the shoes left by outgoing senior executives as it lays the foundations for growth into the latter part of the decade. Jeff Rogers, former head of investment for the Victorian Funds Management Corporation (VFMC), will step into the role of chief ...