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Scrap $5bn super funds

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2008
... concerned about themselves than they are their members?" asked Chant. But Rainmaker group director of research and editorial, Alex Dunnin, strongly disagrees with Chant's comments. "I think some of these comments are a little bit bizarre. You don't get ...

Broadacre price boom

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2008
Grain prices climbing to record levels, combined with encouraging rainfall, is stirring excitement in the agribusiness sector for farmers and investors. "Farmers should be planning to cash-in on the predicted high grain prices and plant substantial ...

US property still has upside

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2008
US residential property may be in freefall but the institutional investment property market is quite another story, according to CB Richard Ellis Investors. In their "Navigating Stormy Seas: the US real estate investment outlook" report, Doug Herzbrun ...

Consumer confidence plummets

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2008
Consumer confidence has plunged 17 percentage points, signaling the economy may be about to slow just enough to allow the Reserve Bank to start dropping interest rates. The news is contained in the latest Sensis consumer report which measures confidence ...

Good management pays, governance not yet

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2008
Yet more evidence is emerging that while investing in companies with good corporate governance may not lead to better returns, investing in well run companies and those following good climate change policies just might. Reputex, an investment research ...

Household wealth breaks through $5 trillion

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2008
Household wealth in Australia is now estimated to be $5.1 trillion after jumping 12 per cent last year, reveals the latest analysis from Treasury. The figures are contained in a Treasury Roundup discussion paper by analysts Anthony Goldbloom and Andrew ...

Water the next competitive frontier

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2008
Treasury boss Ken Henry's speech last week continues to attract interest, especially where he argues for a huge step up in national competition policy, particularly in how we price water. "In addressing the Productivity Commission roundtable on the ...

We knew it all along: Treasury

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2008
While Treasury boss Ken Henry long ago knew what was wrong with the economy and what problems the previous government's policies were causing, he apparently didn't have the political influence and muscle to do much about it. Speaking at the Ian Little ...

The looming inflationary upswing

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2008
The good news is that inflation may be slowly tempering, but the bad news is that long term water prices may double and fuel prices may triple. Yesterday, the Reserve Bank in its monetary policy statement said, "There is tentative evidence that some ...

Australia catches Dutch Disease

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2008
There's not much point to Australia's terms of trade being at record levels if all it does is drive up our currency and keeps us suffocating under a current account deficit that just won't budge. The terms of trade are a measure of the prices we pay ...