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Rise of the new rich

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2010
... fastest in the region, rising five-fold to US$1.8 trillion in a decade. Not to be outdone, Australian investors are ranked third richest when it comes to the average level of wealth, beaten only by Switzerland and Norway. The average wealth per adult ...

Cheap talk

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2010
... celebration of the day Christopher Columbus came to America. While there were some small stirring caused by speculation over the third quarter reporting season and lingering "will they, won't they?" question over a second quantitative easing by the Fed ...

Commercial property regains appeal: survey

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 11 OCT 2010
... the industrial space. The survey also found investors have significant holdings in cash and term deposits with almost one third of respondents holding more than $200,000 in these assets while a majority 74 per cent believe the Australian sharemarket ...

Bad news is good news is bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 OCT 2010
... beds that for when the double-dip comes. They can't put it in their savings accounts - not with interest rates at zero. On third thought, I don't think they'll be able to hold onto that extra 34.2 cents for long - not with petrol prices rising because ...

Parity not quite a party

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 OCT 2010
Aussie, Aussie, Aussie! Oi! Oi! Oi! We're all hearing this cheer growing louder by the day whether in reference to the Commonwealth Games in Delhi or the currency markets internationally. In Delhi, Australians currently lead their Commonwealth competitors ...

Going global with Threadneedle

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 7 OCT 2010
Australian investors should not fear the effects of rising currency on their international portfolios, according to a London based fund manager. "Don't assume that with a strengthening local currency you are going to be worse off investing internationally. ...

More US investment banks close prop desks

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 1 OCT 2010
... are believed to come from locations across the globe including New York, London and Hong Kong, and amount to as much as a third of the company's prop trading business. Bank of America does not have as asset management business per se, but is the major ...

The good smoke

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 SEP 2010
... tobacco tax takes effect. According to the Japan Research Institute, this frontloading would add 1.4 percentage points to the third quarter's annualised real GDP growth. Economist expects real GDP to grow at an annual rate of 1.7 per cent in the September ...

Commercial property sales rebound: CBRE

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 SEP 2010
Commercial property transactions above $5 million rebounded to $2.6 billion in the third quarter, up 268 per cent sequentially and up 75 per cent on last year, according to figures released by CB Richard Ellis. And while Australian super funds are dipping ...

Asia-Pac HNWI market approaches US$10 tn: report

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 28 SEP 2010
... Asia-Pacific Wealth Report released today by Merrill Lynch Global Wealth Management and Capgemini, Australia remains the third largest market in Asia-Pacific for HNWI's, behind China and Japan, with India in fourth place. Australia accounts for almost ...