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Challenger buys 30pc stake in ex-CS boutique

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2008
Challenger has snapped up 30 per cent of a soon to be launched fixed interest boutique headed by former head of fixed interest at Credit Suisse Asset Management Australia, Ben Alexander. Challenger will buy one third of the new boutique, expected to ...

Friendster to fundster

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2008
... spend 70 per cent of the week on day-to-day tasks, 20 per cent on projects that they want to pursue and 10 per cent on "blue sky" programs. He also urged fund managers to move away from supporting staff when they come up with new ideas then back out ...

V-Wrap sales sky rocket

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2008
Praemium's online portfolio administration service, V-Wrap attracted a record number of new sales in the past two months, increasing by 20 and 30 per cent in June and July respectively compared to the same period's last year. Arthur Naoumidis, Praemium ...

Housing affordability report fails to deliver

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2008
... first home buyers should be tax deductible. Housing minister Tanya Plibersek sought to quickly hose down the issue as she told Sky News such a policy response is no solution because it effectively hands bigger bonuses to high income earners at the expense ...

MLC slashes premiums

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2008
MLC has reduced insurance premiums across its Personal Protection Portfolio (PPP) and Life Cover Super (LCS) by as much as 15 per cent, in line with its ongoing strategy to make insurance more affordable. The firm's LCS and PPP premiums have been reduced ...

Govt to create national infra investment fund

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2008
The government is about to set up a new multi-billion investment fund to capture the windfall revenue gains from the resources boom and will use the money to help fund national infrastructure projects, if yet another Budget leak is to be believed. Modelled ...

Rents to jump 50 pct, inflation to hit 4 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2008
... our Reserve Bank Governor told a parliamentary inquiry that they are expecting inflation to hit 4 per cent, news of rents sky rocketing just adds to our woes. But before we get overly excited about the impact all this will have on inflation and "housing ...

That's life, four pillars to stay forever

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2008
... water. And then we have the NSW Heritage Trust president Dr Zeny Edwards being reported in News Limited media saying "Our sky is the only vista common to the whole country... We hope the listing of the sky will be a unifying symbol to help focus awareness ...

Fighting inflation to make housing affordability worse

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2008
Housing affordability just seems to get worse, and our anti-inflationary strategies look set to make it worse. According to the Housing Industry Association (HIA), even despite slowing house prices last year, housing affordability still sunk to yet ...

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. ...