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Councils take action on CDOs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR AND RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2008
... government rethink on how councils should invest their funds. Hugh McLernon, executive director of IMF Australia told ABC's Inside Business this week that 35 to 40 councils have so far been affected by the massive devaluation of Collateralised Debt Obligations ...

Cautiously upbeat: Economists Forum

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2008
... economics and research at the Australian Industry Group, said, "We need to talk about the real economy, like manufacturing. Inside the sectors it can be quite a different story." Pensabene said the economic dark horse is currency. "The story for manufacturing ...

When a lift in unemployment is good news

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2007
... already have in abundance. Maybe we should instead be asking what to do with those computers and students once we get them inside the classroom. But anything that gets us intelligently discussing how to improve productivity, arguably the only economic ...

Operation auction squad

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2007
While the US Fed crafts yet another master plan to fix the sub-prime fiasco, a quiet revolution is happening inside Australia's Reserve Bank. The Bank of Canada, the Bank of England, the European Central Bank, the US Federal Reserve and the Swiss National ...

US-Aust rates spread widens to 250 bps

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2007
The US cut in interest rates to just 4.25 per cent pushes the differential against Aussie rates to a near record high of 250 basis points and signals more turbulence for the AUD and jittery world share markets. The third US rate cut this year continues ...

Asian property under the microscope: AEW

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2007
... than just buying REIT shares as you have to be involved on the ground and be an active player to identify the right deals inside nuance-filled regional markets, according to a Singapore property expert. "It's not just about investing into property shares ...

Chinese walls and windows

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2007
... years to around A$3.5 trillion with 47 million new trading accounts opened this year. According to a Bloomberg report, inside sources say that new rules to this development have been tabled that will cap foreign holdings at 20 per cent which will no ...

Resolution Capital reaches its Pinnacle

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2007
... purchase price of $10 million with potential for more depending on business performance, he said. Resolution is a core manager inside the MLC Global Fund, together with Morgan Stanley and Lasalle Investment Management.

Active fund tax burden costs 4pc of returns

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2007
... able to get solid information before choosing to buy an investment fund." "Tax is the biggest cost for any investor. Even inside a super fund, [they] will typically have to pay, so it makes a lot of sense for investors to be able to see how their money ...

Concepts in risk 101

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2007
... sub-prime calamity to the US savings and loan crisis of the 1980's. Chief Executive of NAB John Stewart, interviewed on ABC's Inside Business, said it could take as long as two years for the bad news to work out of the US sub-prime market. Sub-prime ...