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Attitude determines financial altitude: Plum

... development consultant, Michelle Brown, challenged the age-old wisdom that financial education is the key to funding the country's retirement savings gap. Instead she highlighted their in-house research which found that no matter how much education on ...

Web videocalls invigorate rural banking and remote advice

One of the country's largest credit unions, New England Credit Union (NECU), is making headway in regional banking and remotely offering financial advice through web-based videoconferencing. NECU's theme song could well go, "I've been to Armidale, Barraba ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2007
... foreign companies no longer have to pay capital gains tax on businesses they sell meaning that such companies may exit the country without contributing taxation dollars like typical domestic companies are required to. Britain is presently studying the ...

Germany lifts retirement age

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2007
Legislators in the German Bundestag have voted to increase their country's retirement age from 65 to 67 years, overriding huge howls of protest from unions. Despite the strong protests, the vote was passed by a huge majority of 408 to only 169. Driving ...

Fund managers still favour international shares

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2007
... fund managers kept their asset class preferences broadly unchanged, despite the 6.4 per cent decline in both the MCSI All Country World Index and the S&P/ASX 300 Index. Russell's Chief Investment Officer for the Asia Pacific, Peter Gunning, said managers ...

RCM head of Aussie equities moves to UBS

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2007
... will no longer need to apply for licences for 338 classes of products. This will allow more foreign goods to enter the country and hence help alleviate the politically sensitive trade balance. The Asian Development Bank has said that the Chinese trade ...

Time for Aussies to go global with property: APN

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAR 2007
... earning amongst local LPT's, and you have a sound argument for diversifying into offshore structures. "Diversification by country and by sector offers protection and can provide strong risk adjusted total returns," Doble said. "Australians are in the ...

Global indexing hits $6.4 trillion

... institutional tax-exempt assets under indexed management. But one reason suggested is that local investors are reducing their home-country bias in favour of global investments. Michelle Baltazar

Going nuts over macadamias

... Queensland nut or 'kindal kindal' in aboriginal, macadamia is the only nut native to Australia and is considered one of the country's top exports. Australia is the world's largest producers of macadamias, accounting for 43 per cent of global production ...