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Year of the Bunny

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 JAN 2011
... markets, the OECD leading indicator - the one that tracks the future performance of the developed economies - and global purchasing managers indices have picked up towards the close of 2010. And in case that falters, there's always the Fed to rely on. ...

Lift NZ retirement age to 67

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 DEC 2010
... with insufficient savings a transitional means-tested benefit should be introduced for those aged 65 while the real purchasing power of NZ retirement incomes would be protected by ensuring that the annual pension adjustment is never less than the increase ...

Winter wonderland

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 DEC 2010
... requirement on banks several times this year and even lifted interest rates in November, yet we saw last week that its purchasing managers index continued to expand. "Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow." The European Central Bank's announcement that ...

Open fire roasted bears

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 DEC 2010
... interests. But not for a command economy like China where Beijing dictates what is best. Seen the latest China stats? The Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) rose to 55.2 in November from 54.7 in the previous month and expectations of only a paltry increase ...

Danger everywhere

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 DEC 2010
... your pants off. Cash is safe... maybe, if you can live with zero per cent and expect that no inflation to erode your purchasing power. Anything Australia is safe. Again... maybe. If today's third quarter real GDP growth report does not turn out as bad ...

DSPC makes another discount AUI offer

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 29 NOV 2010
... (AUI) has urged investors to see a financial adviser before considering the latest discounted offer from Direct Share Purchasing Corporation (DSPC). DSPC has offered AUI mortgage funds investors a follow up discounted share offer, with some offers down ...

Calls to fast track higher SG: survey

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 9 NOV 2010
... respondents were worried of their super savings running out yet only 39 per cent agreed to compulsory income stream purchasing. Other results showed that around 70 per cent did not expect to change their contributions levels, 15 per cent had changed ...

Amigos para siempre

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 NOV 2010
... Bernanke said the central bank must focus on the U.S. rather than overseas economies when trying to spur the recovery by purchasing an additional $600 billion in Treasuries." "Our first objective, the first goal that we have, is to meet our mandate to ...

Be wary of lowball offer: AUI

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 15 OCT 2010
... Investments (AUI) has written to retail and wholesale investors advising them to be wary of an offer from Direct Share Purchasing Corporation (DSC) to purchase units in the Australian Unity Mortgage Income Trust. The DSC offer is 80 cents per unit, a ...

Parity not quite a party

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 OCT 2010
... increase by 85,000. Yes, Australia's athletes and its currency are currently the pride of the nation. We now have greater purchasing power when we buy those imported produce we so dearly love. And guess what? We can travel cheaply to the countries that ...