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Economic round-up: Umbrellas up, ice creams down

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2007

Blood and Gore fund sustainable

It is a fund that's been labelled 'future-proof' and has 'performance with principles' and now mum-and-dad investors in Australia can invest in Generation Investment Management (GIM), co-founded by ex-Goldman Sachs CEO David Blood and former US vice ...

Finsia sells education to focus on member services

One of the country's longest running financial institutes, the Financial Services Institute of Australia (Finsia) has signalled a change in business direction after it agreed to sell its education arm to Kaplan Inc enabling it to concentrate on providing ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2007
The Australian market is expected to post sharp losses when it opens after Wall Street shed four-fifths of one per cent of its value overnight. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0656 AEST, the June share price index contract was down 21 points to 5,957. ...

What savings problem?

... identified as key factors by 92 per cent of respondents. Every cent counts. By cutting back on weekly expenses such as using a car wash ($624 a year), buying a bottle of wine ($624) and a jackpot lotto ticket ($260), Australians could save around $580 ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 14 AUG 2006
Woodside Petroleum chairman, Charles Goode, has announced that the energy producer is likely to soon get approval to supply the Californian market with LNG via specially designed ships which will anchor off the US coast and then pump the gas through ...

IFM open for business in London

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 8 AUG 2006
Industry Funds Management (IFM) has opened an office in London and appointed three staff, including a local infrastructure specialist. Tony Clamp, formerly head of project finance at RWE Thames Water and a former employee of the International Finance ...

Tribeca joins The Washington Post

The shareholders of leading education services provider Tribeca have given the nod to the group's acquisition by US-based Kaplan, a subsidiary of The Washington Post Company, for around $56 million. The proposed acquisition was flagged early December ...

Daily economic update

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAY 2006
The Bank of Canada raised interest rates by 25 basis points to 4.25 per cent - the highest they have been since August 2001 and the seventh consecutive hike in the country's official interest rates. In the US, interest rate watchers will welcome the ...

Super Budget benefits all around: AXA

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAY 2006
... vehicle has now been encouraged," Semple said. Although there were a raft of positives to emanate from the Budget, in the final wash-up some current strategies would end up being losers. "A range of accumulation strategies will be less effective in 2006/07 ...