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Economic round-up: Dollars and sense

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2007
The International Monetary Fund is about to clamp down on unfriendly currency policies insisting that its 185 members reject strategies that create instability for other countries. Meanwhile the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) has just executed its ...

Germany rebuffed on hedge fund regulation call

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2007
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has rejected calls by Germany to increase hedge fund regulation, saying responsible macroeconomic government policies are a better solution. It is being widely reported that Germany, holder of the G-7 presidency ...

Institutions more comfortable with hedge funds: State Street

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2007
... of the increasingly large private equity buy-outs collapse, a move the US and UK have rejected. The International Monetary Fund has been reported to be rebuffing the initiative preferring more functional regulation.

PE boom poses risks: IMF

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2007
... leveraged buyouts (LBOs) pose risks to an otherwise positive global economic outlook, according to the International Monetary Fund's half-yearly Global Financial Stability Report. According to the IMF, strong corporate performance and low interest rates ...

Former Treasury head to be Westpac chairman

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2006
... appointed deputy chairman to assist with a smooth transition. Evans has also served on the boards of the International Monetary Fund and the Reserve Bank of Australia. He is currently the chairman of the risk management committee and a member of both ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2006
... $10.8 billion. On another note the Treasurer has confirmed his views expressed in September that the International Monetary Fund should widen its membership and power base beyond the influence of the US and Europe to include the burgeoning economies ...

Daily economic round-up

ALFRED SINN  |  THURSDAY, 26 OCT 2006
The International Monetary Fund has revised up its growth forecasts for the Australian economy to 3 per cent in 2006 and 3.5 per cent in 2007 and has warned that the commodity price boom is likely to put upward pressure on inflation and therefore interest ...

Future Fund is a government subsidiary: IMF

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 OCT 2006
Despite arguments by the Future Fund board that it acts independently of politics, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has stated the obvious in saying it is a subsidiary of government. In its latest report on the Australian economy, the IMF has singled ...

Derivative Fitch rates structured products

... completely address the risks inherent in the credit derivatives market." The move is likely welcomed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) which feared that the rise of structured products such as CDOs have not been accompanied by an equal level of ...

Government must intervene more to promote savings: CEDA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2006
... organisations around the world that are similar to CEDA, including senior executives and academics from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Columbia University and Harvard University. "The tectonic forces of demography in the era ahead will redefine ...