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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 ...

AFS paraplanning gets thumbs up

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2007
Graduates from the Australian Financial Services' (AFS) Paraplanning Academy have hailed the program as a success. The academy involves recruits to complete a six-week program with the initial two weeks spent working in structured classroom activities ...

Fidelity turns on hazard lights for 2008

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2007
Global equity markets will be more volatile next year highlighting the need for institutional investors to analyse their stock choices more stringently, according to Fidelity. "The economic backdrop is less than rosy. Inflation while not appearing a ...

The secret to MTAA's success

... infrastructure assets and direct property. In 2006, the fund entered into a joint venture with Bio Innovation SA, a world class research and development entity and facility. Following the 'Two Portfolio Strategy', the fund's Balanced Option (default) ...

First Quadrant launches fund for all seasons

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2007
... sources of alpha into one strategy. The sources comprise of five categories including bond country selection, global asset class selection, stock country selection, currency selection and volatility management. "Asset class positioning is bearish for ...

Retirees short on yield

... specialist and report author at Zurich. "In Australia, listed property trusts which often been used as high yield asset class by many investors, have seen their yields crash as income hungry investors have pushed their prices sky high," he said. The ...

ANZ bank looks to India

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2007
... dinner with a French ATM, they sell insurance, approve mortgages, it's quite amazing." He said India had developed world class businesses in knowledge based industries such as software, IT services and pharmaceuticals. "The most efficient bank in the ...

The new government: what it means

... provider in the country, has outlined what the landslide victory of the Labor party means for investors and retirees. Working class families are the clear winners with child care rebates to increase from the current 30 per cent to as much as 50 per cent. ...

India: a country within a country

ALEX DUNNIN REPORTING FROM MUMBAI AND NEW DELHI AT THE INAUGURAL AUSTRALIA INDIA FINANCIAL FORUM  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2007
... Rajnikant Patel, chief executive officer of the Bombay Stock Exchange. Driving this even harder is how India's affluent class now have enough confidence in their business and regulatory culture to keep much more of their capital in the country rather ...

Comminsure motors along

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2007
The bancassurance model is alive and well. The Commonwealth Bank's life and general insurance business, Comminsure, has moved to do its own underwriting on its car insurance product because it believes it can get greater value out of its retail network ...