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Water the next competitive frontier

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2008
... have the same price everywhere, arbitrage would ensure that any difference in the prices paid for water between any two places and/or any two points in time would be no larger than could be explained by the costs of 'transport' and storage in moving ...

Web service climbs adviser wishlist

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2008
... across Australia in December last year and found the importance for super funds to provide online functionality jumped 15 places to sixth position in a year, replacing timeliness of administrative processing which moved up three spots. The significance ...

Web 2 social networking websites under attack

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2008
Research from anti virus software firm, AVG, has found social networking and banking websites are becoming attractive places for cyber criminals to steal private information for financial profit. The AVG research revealed major virus threats were found ...

Gray shifts to academia

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2008
... stems from his desire to "look around and try to do something different." "I'm looking at spending a bit of time working in places like the United Nations High Commissioner of Refugees (UNHCR), and doing some academic research," he said. Gray will embark ...

'Tis the season to invest

... through the holiday season. "The results suggest that while people can appreciate the additional strain that Christmas places on their household budgets, they are unable to stop themselves from over-spending," said Jennifer Nielsen, X Inc's chief executive ...

SMSFs save via industry fund schemes

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2007
... manage their own investments. So we're saying 'We'll do everything, all you have to do is select your investments.'" CBUS places a higher $50,00 minimum limit and like CARE Super, restricts members to only put 50 per cent of their fund into the option. ...

Macq targets Asian real estate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2007
... the growth is, Singapore rent's are up 280 per cent over the last three years and Hong Kong is up 260 per cent whereas places like London, Sydney and New York are more muted," Cornish said. Cornish said they predicted Singapore growth in rents, to moderate ...

Industry funds on top again

CHRIS NICHOLLS AND ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2007
... cent returns over three years, while industry funds again dominated the remaining top 10 taking out seven of the top 10 places. However, all was not lost for retail master trusts, according to Rainmaker's associate director of research Andrew Keevers. ...

Labour calls for fin services tax reforms

... the Tax Act." He said that Division 6C is notorious for the unnecessary complexity and a high administrative burden it places on Australian managed funds and Real Estate Investment Trusts (REIT). A rewrite of the tax law, he said, would help cut compliance ...

Income does not drive wealth: ABS

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2007
... richest. By contrast, Melbourne households achieved only the fourth highest average income but their average wealth was two places higher coming it at number two. Perth households had the opposite outcome achieving number six for income but number four ...