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China to lead IPOs again in 2008

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2008
The Australian and US share markets may be going through some turbulence, but IPOs in China are working to a different script as the volume of new listings in 2008 looks set to almost double compared to this time last year. According to the Thomson ...

CFS adds muscle to distribution team

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2008
... strategy," said Colonial First State general manager of distribution, Paul Barett. Among some of the key staff recruited is Alex Donald - formerly responsible for managing key account strategy for Zurich's retail business - who has been appointed head ...

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. ...

GM takes sustainability mainstream

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2008
General Motors chief executive Rick Wagoner telling the audience at the Detroit Motor Show that the world has reached peak oil and that alternative fuels are now essential for the car industry confirms just how mainstream sustainability has become. ...

We'll cut rates again if we have to: US Fed

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2008
US Federal Reserve governor Ben Bernanke has warned that he is ready to cut rates further if that is what is necessary to shake the US economy out of its slow slide into recession, raising speculation that the AUD and oil prices will continue to skyrocket. ...

Principal Global appoints Hanel

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2007
... associate director, fund ratings, at Standard & Poor's, where he was in charge of Australian and international equities. Alex FranASois, head of sales and marketing at Principal Global Investors, said Hanel's experience in domestic and international ...

When a lift in unemployment is good news

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2007
An economy moving to full employment has big implications for economic policy and how we should read the macro indicators. In a major speech to the NSW Economic Society this week, Dr Steven Kennedy from the Commonwealth Treasury said while the most ...

ARIA looking for new CEO

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2007
The Australian Reward Investment Alliance (ARIA), trustee of the commonwealth public sector super schemes PSS, CSS and PSSap, is looking for a new chief executive following the resignation of current boss Steve Gibbs. Gibbs, who has been chief executive ...

Operation auction squad

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2007
While the US Fed crafts yet another master plan to fix the sub-prime fiasco, a quiet revolution is happening inside Australia's Reserve Bank. The Bank of Canada, the Bank of England, the European Central Bank, the US Federal Reserve and the Swiss National ...

US-Aust rates spread widens to 250 bps

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2007
The US cut in interest rates to just 4.25 per cent pushes the differential against Aussie rates to a near record high of 250 basis points and signals more turbulence for the AUD and jittery world share markets. The third US rate cut this year continues ...