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Oil speculators push up prices 50 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2008
... momentum. Saudi Arabia, the world's second largest producer of oil behind Russia, has announced it is convening a world oil summit so buyers and sellers can get to the bottom of what is driving the "unjustified" oil price rises. So much for last weekend's ...

PM's wrong and right oil strategy

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2008
... Minister, concerned about the inflationary aspects of high oil prices on Australia and the world economy, wants this month's G8 Summit in Japan to strong-arm the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) into increasing supplies which should ...

Infrastructure Australia should set national priorities

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2008
The 2020 Summit final report has good news for infrastructure investors looking for directional certainty. The 399 page report lists three big ideas to help Australian investors build new infrastructure that should influence government policy around ...

AETS could add 14 cents to petrol prices

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2008
... cents per litre of fuel," said Sean Lucy, director at PriceWaterhouse Coopers, speaking at the National Emissions Trading Summit this morning. In Europe however carbon has been trading at about A$35 per tonne implying that should European prices become ...

Climate change good for agriculture

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2008
... countries to protectionism, which has already been seen." Despite these challenges, delegates at a recent climate change summit convened by the Farm Institute carried the view that Australian agriculture continued to have an incredibly optimistic future ...

Health insurance lobby lessons

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2008
... are about as bad as it gets and reinforce why groups like the Australian Medical Association were not invited to the 2020 Summit. So what are the take-outs for superannuation and wealth management especially as they prepare their predictable string of ...

Attack tax with tact

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2008
One of the major recommendations that came out of the recent 2020 Summit was for a "root and branch" review of tax system even though we all know this is just code for Prime Minister Rudd wanting to increase, not lower, the tax take. Case in point is ...

FinLit boosts productivity while educating kids

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2008
... productivity, said Fitzpatrick. Fitzpatrick was one of few wealth management industry representatives invited to the recent 2020 Summit.

CPI, housing affordability and oil bills

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2008
... only inflate prices. Enter stage right our high mortgage rates that should act as an automatic dampener. But if the 2020 Summit idea that the government should set up a cheap bond market program to lower the cost of housing finance in the wholesale market ...

2020 Summit push for life long accounts

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 22 APR 2008
The wealth management industry may have been left off the 2020 Summit's guest list but that doesn't mean we were left out of the Summit's final report. The initial report outlining the summit's outcomes contains two key recommendations that could have ...