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Blame it on my Blackberry

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2007
At a time when financial services professionals are clocking up more work hours than their predecessors, yet another study has found that many people are unable to separate their private and work time due to mobile email devices such as the Blackberry. ...

Water's potential to float

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 AUG 2007
With Federal and State Governments drowning in debate over how best to manage water, Citi has published economic research on the use of market forces and price to allocate this scarce resource. Shane Lee, Citi economist, believes opportunities are being ...

Local investors still call Australia home

... bigger slice of an average high net worth investor's portfolio with 43 per cent of those surveyed buying assets in Asia, the USA and Europe, in that order. "The willingness of investors to look overseas for opportunities is interesting, with a much greater ...

Westpac ends senior IT exec hunt

... join the bank in September. She will replace Michael Coomer, who is retiring at the end of the month. Currently based in the USA, Sias is a partner at management consulting firm, McKinsey & Company, where she led major projects on organisational restructurings ...

Symantec appoints co-heads to fin services team

... execution. He has more than 20 years' experience in the financial services and IT industries and has worked in Asia, Australia, the USA, and the Middle East. Prior to joining Symantec, Kastner worked at EMC, PA Consulting Group, Ernst & Young, Saudi ...

A fund that holds water

... companies including Severn Trent (UK), Suez (France), Veolia Environment (France),Toray Industries Inc (Japan), and Ashland Inc (USA). There are no Australian companies included in the portfolio. "The water industry today resembles the oil industry during ...

Going nuts over macadamias

... customer base to include Germany and Japan. More importantly, the 17.6 per cent tariff on processed macadamia imported to the USA is expected to be phased out over the next five years. One catch, however, is increased competition from low-cost producers ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2007
The National Australia Bank monthly survey of business conditions and business confidence has been released showing a improvement in the conditions measure to a score of 18 which sits just below the record of 18.6 that was achieved in March 2006. Constituent ...

Trade faster than a speeding bullet: INSTINET

... costs of executing and clearing trades in European exchanges is about three times more expensive than similar trades in the USA and 50 per cent higher than in Japan," said McDonald, continuing that it's because most of the European platforms are sitting ...

LGSS paints $400m in property green

The Local Government Superannuation Scheme (LGSS) is planning to implement a Sustainable and Responsible Investment (SRI) policy across its $400 million property portfolio, a step change that other super funds could soon follow as environmental issues ...