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ANU down $100 million

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2008
The global sharemarket correction has cost the Australian National University (ANU) $100 million. The ANU vice-chancellor, Professor Ian Chubb, said their portfolio is down about 8 per cent, but he added that they didn't need the money right now and ...

Fix productivity, fix education

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2008
All the debate about up-skilling through sharpening our educational curriculum might be missing one key detail - students don't like technical subjects and it's a major long term threat to our global productivity. A review just released by the Australian ...

Food shortages put farmers in box seat

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2008
Farmers may at last be in the box seat with even the IMF now warning about a world food shortage, but rather than complaining about high food prices a better solution might be paying farmers reasonable prices for their produce. The world food shortage ...

We just don't organise anymore

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2008
Despite the successful fight to overthrow WorkChoices and the explosive growth of industry super funds, union membership just keeps getting worse. The ABS has just released figures showing trade union membership is down to only 13.7 per cent of employees ...

Earnings power peaks from age 35

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2008
Income for males peaks from age 35 while for women it peaks ten years earlier, reveals the ABS. The mean weekly earnings of employees in their main job was unsurprisingly higher for men than for women in every age group with the greatest difference ...

Currency replaces fixed income

... use foreign exchange managed funds as an alternative to fixed income funds. Morgan Stanley's London-based currency expert Alex Davey was in Australia this month to talk about the group's newly-launched FX Alpha fund range. The funds, Alpha and Alpha-plus ...

Oil to drop to US$85 by year-end

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2008
Petrol hitting $1.50 per litre is distracting analysts from the impact of the slowing world economy that is likely to see prices drop significantly in the medium term. Slowing world demand could drop prices from their current sustained US$110-plus run ...

Margin lending collapses risk regulatory over-reach

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2008
The collapse of some boutique margin lenders is prompting calls for more regulation, but regulatory overreaction leading to overreach may cause even bigger structural problems. To illustrate the conundrum, it's worth reviewing some of Reserve Bank Glen ...

Angels targeting SMEs

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2008
Sub-prime pushed private equity out of the news but when it all settles down and the focus returns to building businesses, one sector that will get more attention is angel investing. Angel investors are like venture capital investors except they get ...

Unemployment rises to 4.1 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2008
The latest unemployment figures just released by the ABS fuel hopes that the economy might be finally slowing. The ABS has just reported that unemployment has increased by 0.1 percentage points to 4.1 per cent in seasonally adjusted terms. But the shift ...