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Citibank's Agent Penny: licensed to teach

... among young kids. Not to be confused with the great 007 character Miss Moneypenny, Agent Penny is not a spy but is the country's first ever financial education comic book heroine launched to promote money skills and finance values among primary school ...

Daily economic update

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAY 2006
... 25 basis points to 4.25 per cent - the highest they have been since August 2001 and the seventh consecutive hike in the country's official interest rates. In the US, interest rate watchers will welcome the implications of weak economic reports released ...

Daily economic update

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAY 2006
... and continues to show strong momentum. Higher consumer spending should provide an offset to a possible slowdown in the country's external trade.

Select gold up 118 per cent in just 12 months

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAY 2006
... Bisha property have added to our conviction that this is high-grade gold," Select noted. With resource analysts around the country tipping that lots of life is left in the resources and commodities boom, Select is equally upbeat. "The outlook for the ...

Counting on SMAs with Praemium

Count Financial, the country's third largest network of financial advisers, has signed up with Praemium/MLIM's separately managed account (SMA) platform. While the managed accounts sector is well-established in the US, the local market is yet to embrace ...

Julius Baer and Aurora offer fixed interest

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAY 2006
Aurora Funds Management has partnered with Swiss giant Julius Baer to launch an Australian fixed interest fund as a feeder into the huge Julius Baer fixed interest pool of funds. The Aurora Absolute Return Fund is open to institutional investors in ...

Daily economic update

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAY 2006
... while purchases of agencies increased to US$19 billion. While the total US securities purchased in March exceeded the country's current trade deficit of US$62.0 billion, the US dollar's depreciation lessens the attractiveness of US securities and could ...

Independence pays for Frontier

... will hire at least five more staff this year after winning the largest superannuation asset consulting contract in the country, with $28 billion State Super, thanks to its 'independent advice' business model. Frontier's managing director Fiona Trafford-Walker ...

Budget to pave the way for better advice: Stammer

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAY 2006
... 26th ASFA post-Budget speech, leading economist and academic, Don Stammer, welcomed Costello's proposals to simplify the country's superannuation tax system and highlighted the changes it will usher in for the adviser community. "We no longer will have ...

More meat in Meat Super

A little known super fund for the meat industry holds the title of the "lowest cost fund in the country" with above average returns to boot. The Meat Industry Employees' Superannuation Fund (MIESF), which manages super for red meat abattoirs and poultry ...