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Post sub-prime, ethics more crucial than ever: CFAs

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2008
Australia has just hosted its first ever board meeting for the chartered financial analysts (CFA) institute who are here to talk about what they need to do to keep up with growing demand for their professional qualifications. "Domestically the CFA brand ...

Cautiously upbeat: Economists Forum

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2008
Sub-prime was the American Dialect Society's 2007 word of the year but 2008's might be stagflation or even agflation, leading economists told today's Chief Economists Forum in Sydney. "There is a recession in US housing and it will get worse and even ...

Marsupials and the money market

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2008
US-Aust interest rate differentials are now at a four year and almost all time high after this morning's US rate rise, putting even more pressure on central banks around the world to follow suit irrespective of local fundamentals. The US rate drop to ...

Alt energy funds ready for 2030

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2008
While alternative energy indices have outdone the ASX300 in the past five years, the prospects of the sector just got better on the back of new energy demand forecasts. "If I was putting together a portfolio in the alternative sector, now is a very ...

ITG launches Triton Asia Pacific

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2008
The Investment Technology Group (ITG) has released its buy side product, Triton, to Australian traders giving them access to Asia Pacific equity markets. Triton allows buy-side traders to trade more than 30,000 equities across Asia Pacific using a simple ...

Gray shifts to academia

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2008
The former head of strategy at Grantham Mayo van Otterloo (GMO), Jack Gray, recently announced his resignation from the company. According to Gray, the resignation stems from his desire to "look around and try to do something different." "I'm looking ...

Pure infrastructure a safe haven: CFS

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2008
Pure infrastructure is potentially the safe haven for Australian investors seeking to insulate themselves from volatile markets, according to Hans Kunnen, head of investment markets research at Colonial First State. "The classic safe havens will be ...

Scottish Equitable puts lid on withdrawals

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2008

Sub-prime not such a CAD after all

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2008
While Australian exports are booming and industry is rolling along so well that their biggest complaint is why there is too little labour supply, our high current account deficit (CAD) means we are more vulnerable than we think, no matter how much we ...

Who cares about the US, it's Asia that matters

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2008
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has just released an analysis of how Australia's international trade profile has changed since Federation, confirming just how much our world has changed and why Asia and not the US is what drives our economy. ...