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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 ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 AUG 2006
... Melbourne, Treasurer Peter Costello has added that there needs to be a widening of the membership of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to include the Asian nations whose economies have grown over the last couple of decades. The IMF was set up about ...

Daily economic update

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAY 2006
... growth for its 30-member industrialised countries to be 3.1 per cent this year. This compares with International Monetary Fund (IMF) forecast for global economic growth of 4.9 per cent in 2006 and 2.9 per cent next year. High energy costs and rising ...

IMF and World Bank to review local financial system

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank are to conduct a financial sector assessment program (FSAP) of Australia. The assessment is part of a regular program that has been undertaken in over 100 countries. According to the Federal Treasurer ...

European's believe inflation is higher than reality, ECB's Trinchet says

... inflation," said Trichet, who was in the United States for weekend meetings involving the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. The ECB chief, appearing at the Economic Club of New York, said this could help explain why consumption in the euro ...