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Budget reply: National clearing house, halve the OS withholding tax

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2007
The real Budget presented by Treasurer Peter Costello on Tuesday night largely ignored superannuation and investment, but the make-believe Budget Reply announced by Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd last night had us front and centre. In a speech that started ...

Starved infrastructure will bite into growth

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2007
Opposition Leader, Kevin Rudd, played the political magician last night by pulling some surprising economic and political rabbits out of the hat, but there's still no talk of feeding our starved infrastructure any time soon. If anyone was wondering ...

Web videocalls invigorate rural banking and remote advice

One of the country's largest credit unions, New England Credit Union (NECU), is making headway in regional banking and remotely offering financial advice through web-based videoconferencing. NECU's theme song could well go, "I've been to Armidale, Barraba ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAR 2007
In a report surveying 19 core industry groups and 7,426 employers in Australia, recruitment and talent management company Hudson found that a net 34 per cent of employers expect to increase staff numbers over the forthcoming second quarter of 2007. ...

ALP's broadband funding comes under fire

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2007
The Federal Labor Opposition has come under fire for its plan to build a high speed broadband fibre to the node (FTTN) network covering 98 per cent of the population, with the $4.7 billion dollar project to be bankrolled by the Future Fund's remaining ...

Stenham wins best long-term FOHF

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2007
London based fund of hedge funds (FOHF) specialist Stenham Asset Management has started 2007 in style, being awarded the Best Long-Term Achievement Award at the European Hedge Fund of Funds Awards. It was the second year in a row that Stenham went home ...

Community CPS credit union launches Eastwoods FP

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 30 JAN 2007
Recently merged and expanded credit union Community CPS has launched its in-house financial planning service, Eastwoods, already operating with $300 million in funds under advice (FUA). Kevin Benger, chief executive office of Community CPS, said, "We ...

First SEQUAL approved broker

NICK OLIVER  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JAN 2007
Western Australian mortgage broker Pauline Murray, of Horizon Mortgage Planners, has become the first Senior Australians Equity Release Association of Lenders (SEQUAL) accredited mortgage consultant in Australia. Murray received the accreditation after ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2007
Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd has criticised the Federal Government's record on productivity citing a report by the OECD which says that Australia's spending on higher education has fallen by 7 per cent over the last decade while there was an increase ...

AMP Capital Investors completes $280m China capital raising

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 19 DEC 2006
AMP Capital Investors has completed a $280 million capital raising for its AMP Capital China Growth Fund, which gives Australian investors a rare chance to access China A shares through an Australian listed vehicle. China A shares are equities listed ...