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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2006
... sharply higher as the Federal Reserve's summary of business conditions showed an increase in economic activity across the country. The US central bank's report also showed labor cost pressures little changed in January and February. The Dow Jones industrial ...

New hedge fund managers need the right skills: AIMA

The country's $22 billion hedge funds industry will continue to grow at phenomenal rates, but the challenge is to ensure new hedge fund managers have the right skills, said the Alternative Investment Management Association's (AIMA) chairman Kim Ivey. ...

Daily economic update

... the economy. Economic expansion has, in turn, slowly reversed more than seven years of falling prices (deflation) in the country, prompting the Bank of Japan to end its quantitative easing policy last week. Further signs of sustainable growth could spur ...

Bribery and corruption policies hard to find

... corruption. The research, which looked at companies in the S&P/ASX 100, revealed that while Australia ranked second as the country least likely to engage in corruption, 49 per cent of companies in the study operated in countries or sectors identified ...

Macq eyes $150bn rural property as competitive asset class

... not wholly dependent on periodic rainfall. Interestingly, if you look at that the percentage of land irrigated in the country, there's only about one per cent but that one percent produces 28 per cent of agricultural output," said Andrews. The fund's ...

Lonsdale close to 110-planner target, adds risk specialists

... out there to recruit every accounting or planning business available simply because they might not fit our culture." The country's chronic underinsurance is also one of the key planks of Lonsdale's recent business initiative of aligning itself with three ...

Weekly economic round-up

... National Accounts figures show that although the Australian economy is now on its 14th year of uninterrupted expansion, the country's growth momentum has slowed to below trend since the second quarter of last year. Real GDP grew by a lower-than-expected ...

Daily Economic Update

... followed by Tasmania and the ACT (both up 1.4 per cent). The uptrend in retail sales, if sustained, should underpin the country's economic growth going forward improve on the moderate 2.7 per cent (year-on-year) expansion in GDP in the December quarter. ...

Gates wide open for fee-for-service: MLC

... answer the clarion call for a more transparent and flexible adviser fee structure, the largest platform provider in the country, National/MLC, has launched a 'fee for service' version of its flagship MasterKey product. This month, the group has launched ...

Thirty dealer groups up for $300m in Westpoint recovery

... weeks to make recommendations on proceedings." Rees added that if proceedings go ahead they will be launched across the country in either the Supreme or Federal Court, particularly in Brisbane and Melbourne where the majority of financial planners who ...