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Weekly Economic Roundup

Last week's battery of domestic economic reports did nothing to alter the prevailing view over Australian monetary policy settings. If anything, they strengthened investors' conviction that local interest rates will remain steady at 5.5 per cent in ...

Business investments overtakes consumer spending

Today's economic data reports re-affirm consensus views that Australian business investment has become the major driving force in the economy, taking over the mantle from consumer spending and housing. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reported ...

HOSTPLUS grows 33 per cent

... "We have outstripped our already healthy annual average growth in FUM of 28 per cent over the last five years both at year end June 2005 (31 per cent) and August 2005 (33 per cent)." Elia puts the increase in voluntary contributions down to the Government ...

Economic roundup

Australian economic and survey statistics last week gave credence to the Financial Standard Intelligence Unit's (FSIU) and other market economists' view that business investment and external trade will takeover from housing as the country's growth engine. ...

Macquarie's LPTs set to go from strength to strength

Macquarie Bank's Property Investment Management Division has released results for the year ended 30 June 2005 showing its range of listed property trusts (LPTs) produced an average return weighted by market capitalisation of 37.5 per cent. The top performers ...

Life insurance market posts strong results

The life insurance market received a shot in the arm during the last year to the end of March with inflows rising nearly 11 per cent from $4.1 billion to $4.5 billion. While double digit growth in premium inflows was not uncommon with Prefsure (20 per ...

Performance fees roll in for Macquarie

Macquarie Bank Group earned almost $170 million in performance fees in its infrastructure funds management arms for the financial year just ended. Macquarie Airports (MAp) management companies earned $36.7 million during the period and the MAp companies ...

Gov to refine FSR by year end

The Federal Government hopes to have in place its refinements to the Financial Services Reform (FSR) Act by the end of the year, Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury Chris Pearce told an IFSA member lunch yesterday. "To my mind FSR is a basically ...

Record year pays-off for MacBank execs

Macquarie Bank yesterday announced a massive increase of 67 per cent in after tax profit to $823 million and an increase of over 50 per cent in total remuneration for its executive directors and its top five executives to $93 million. Pre-tax profit ...

ASIC clarifies position on disclosing impact of IFRS

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has indicated its expectations as to the nature and extent of the disclosure in financial reports, for the year ended 30 June 2005, about the impact of the implementation of International Financial ...