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Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 4 DEC 2006
... less than 50. Not since early 2003 has such a low score been recorded. The result from the manufacturing sector which accounts for about 12 per cent of US GDP adds to the evidence about poor state of the US housing market which by most measures is in ...

Analyse bonds differently to equities: Loomis Sayles

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2006
... changes in Treasury rates. "Certainly, duration is the most important risk measure for an all-Treasury portfolio since it accounts for a large portion of the potential price changes, however as non-Treasury securities are added to a portfolio duration ...

Praemium partners with stockbroking specialist

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 NOV 2006
Listed Australian managed accounts provider Praemium has entered into an agreement with leading stockbroking technology provider GBST Holdings that will see improved services and efficiencies for both sets of clients. Stockbroking technology specialist ...

ASIC should adopt dollar-base performance metrics: ISN

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 28 NOV 2006
... 'net benefit to members' measure is the most meaningful. NBTM looks at the dollars super funds deliver into members' accounts, after fees and taxes, which after all is the bottom line for investors," said Weaven. This is so important because Australians ...

Compare the pair: Weaven vs Lambert

... retirement income," he said. Weaven challenged the crowd to support independent comparison research based on real-life member accounts over any time period. "I would be prepared to bet that if we have a truly independent random assessment of the average ...

Multiple super accounts wasting billions in fees: CHOICE

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 24 NOV 2006
Consumers waste up to $2 billion per year in fees on unnecessary multiple accounts and it's time something was done about it, CHOICE said in watershed report released yesterday. The report by the peak consumer group CHOICE, The Super Secret: how multiple ...

Banks take a softly, softly approach to electronic banking

WWW.THESHEET.COM.AU  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2006
... communication with customers. Twelve months ago the bank started offering customers an e-statement for their savings and cheque accounts. Westpac's head of electronic banking, Paul Jennings, said the take-up had been very good. Twenty-five per cent of ...

Broker gets jail term for forgery

... their knowledge nor consent. He then used around $1.28 million of client money as security for trading on other clients' accounts and for his personal options accounts. Because of this, some of Kakoschke's clients didn't have the collateral available ...

BankWest raises high yield stakes

... after the Reserve Bank lifted the cash rate by 0.25 per cent, BankWest has topped up the interest on its TeleNet Saver accounts to 6.8 per cent per annum, giving high yield funds a run for their money. The 6.8 per cent interest is certainly on par, and ...

Financial Simplicity welcomes director of sales

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 7 NOV 2006
Managed accounts software provider Financial Simplicity has appointed a new director of sales to help grow the business. Richard Hail has been appointed director of sales to help Financial Simplicity grow its market share in the growing managed accounts ...