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Inflation not currency worrying the RBA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2011
Anyone who thinks the Reserve Bank was about to cave into pressure for lower interest rates to take pressure of the AUD should read their rates decision statement from yesterday because it seems they were closer to lifting them than they were to lowering ...

Bendigo Wealth strengthens distribution capabilities

RACHEL DAVIS  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2011
Bendigo Wealth has made three new senior distribution appointments, completing its realignment of the team. Diego Del Rosso has been appointed senior manager, strategic partners & alliances. Del Rosso has over 17 years of financial services experience ...

Trouble building in the housing market

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2011
Australia's housing market continues to confound, not because it's expensive in world terms but because of the disconnect between people naively hoping for price reductions and everybody else complaining we aren't building them fast enough. The latest ...

It's official, Rudd saved Australia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2011
It is being reported today that Treasury believe it was really former prime minister Kevin Rudd who saved Australia from the GFC and not the mining industry, but before we get too excited the analysis simply confirms that we don't just have a two-speed ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2011
... Monday, the Australian dollar was trading at 106.06 US cents, down from 106.94 US cents on Friday. ANZ senior markets dealer Alex Sinton said currency traders were hesitant to make relatively riskier investments, like the Australian dollar, following ...

Super returns crash below 5%

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2011
Super fund median default rolling 12 month returns have crashed down from a rolling 12 month median return of 8.7% at end June 2011 to 4.9% at end July, according to the latest SelectingSuper fund performance survey. Despite the volatility, long-term ...

IMF just as baffled as we are

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2011
Global pressure to contain debt is ironically one of the biggest threats to the world economy, warns the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde. Writing in the Financial Times, Lagarde said world economic confidence ...

Ideas count and Australia is up to 69,000

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2011
In a month characterised by global economic doom and gloom, Australia has just received a very welcome fillip - trade mark applications by Australian businesses are up-to pre GFC levels and have broken through the 69,000 barrier. Even better news is ...

Manufacturing's Gerry Harvey moment

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2011
Manufacturing has just had it's Gerry Harvey moment and no amount of pro-protectionist inquiries is going to help it wind back the clock to the lazy Australian economic daze of the 1950s. In January famed business entrepreneur Gerry Harvey fronted a ...

Bonds, where the real money is

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 30 AUG 2011
World equity markets hold only $57 trillion, one-third less than the $90 trillion in world bond markets, so it might be time we paid a bit more attention to where the real money is. Like how despite the frenzy for more debt as governments scrambled ...