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CFD traders to reach 50,000

... doubled, CFD trading is still far from mainstream. They are still a fraction of the number of active share traders in the country which numbers around the 800,000 mark. The race is on for the CFD providers in the market place to attract these conventional ...

ASX preps for emissions scheme

... futures market and to provide advice to the Federal Government on the design aspects of an ETS. The world's first multi-country emissions trading system and the largest scheme so far was the European Union (EU) Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) which was ...

Economic round-up: Economists weather forecast

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2007
... with ever increasing demand from Asia and record commodity prices. But transport backlogs and bottlenecks at some of the country's biggest shipping ports remain a risk to future business and a dead weight on export costs. Our current account deficit ...

Economic round-up: Circle your wagons

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2007
While we continue to ride the resources boom, it seems that our cash starved infrastructure is beginning to hit the country's coffers where it hurts - in the mining sector. Hundreds of wagons once used to transport Queensland coal are lying idle throughout ...

Taxes should not target PE: BVCA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2007
... equity which increasingly focuses on taking larger established public companies private. "There is a tax structure in this country that is designed to stimulate enterprise, innovation, and it is the same for everyone in this country. There is no special ...

Property funds building on size

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2007
... "The sector continues to outperform and the sustained growth shows continuing support for property investment in this country despite some negative sentiment surrounding contracting yields and an overvalued listed sector. If this growth continues PIR ...

Much ado over Northern Trust

... uses ANZ as a subcustodian in Australia. Perkins suggested that the Future Fund's move won't be an isolated case as the country's trillion-dollar superannuation system continue to become a magnet to offshore service providers. "The investment industry ...

New blood to shake up CFS Aussie equities

Colonial First State, one of the largest equities funds manager in the country, hopes to turn its misfortunes on the personnel front into an opportunity to hunt new talent and revamp its performance track record. The revolving door at CFS has kept turning ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2007
... 0.11 per cent with investors relieved that the near-term uncertainty over China's policy had been cleared up after the country's central bank raised both interest rates and lenders' required reserves. The benchmark Hang Seng Index closed up 22.91 points ...

Three times the tax without a TFN

... given their tax file number (TFN) to their employers. Superpartners, the largest administration services provider in the country, is urging people to provide their TFN to their employers before 30 June, when the Simpler Super reforms take effect. "Providing ...