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Retirement age must rise

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 18 APR 2008
... AgeingWorkforceNews, an information and research website specialising in how to promote older employees staying on, "a recent poll of Canadians over the age of 55, [listed] health assurances as the best thing an employer can offer older workers to keep ...

Instos to spend big in India

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2008
... infrastructure, Donnelly said there are also opportunities for pension investment in healthcare and technology. The findings of the poll is relevant because more than half of those surveyed come from the largest super funds in the country, representing ...

EMs too fast, too furious for sub-prime

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2008
Emerging markets are set to grow more than three times the rate of developed markets and will shrug off the sub-prime led liquidity crisis with ease, according to emerging markets wizard Mark Mobius. EMs investments expert Mobius from Templeton Asset ...

Money changes hands

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 29 FEB 2008
... fall and pointing to looming revisions in how we manage the global currency system. Illustrating the concerns, an online poll on the Fat Prophets website has two-thirds of people believing that in 15 years the USD will no longer be the world's de facto ...

Wage costs jump 4.3 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2008
... this year. The housing price spike that reached 12 per cent if we consider just prices is so severe however that an online poll conducted by X Inc Finance found that almost 44 per cent of people believe they are unlikely to ever own their own home or ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2007
... Index for November is due, as is the TD Securities-Melbourne Institute Inflation Gauge for November. In Sydney, the Post-Poll Telecom Agenda seminar on telecommunications policy under the Rudd Labor federal government will be held. Also in Sydney, the ...

Govt to address underinsurance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2007
... that the government should take a lead in tackling the country's chronic underinsurance, according to a financial planner poll. More than 50 per cent of the attendees at this month's ING OneCare Express roadshow said that the government needs to work ...

The worm turns

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2007
... latest PPI figures could turn the spotlight. While tax cut plans and economic debate have been hijacked by endless "worm" and poll specualtion, a higher than expected rise in the producer price index (PPI) has fuelled expectations that underlying inflation ...

Money can't buy confidence

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2007
Consumer confidence has bounced back, after an 8.1 per cent fall last month, to 14.3 per cent above last year's levels and 13.9 per cent above the 20-year average. The Westpac-Melbourne Institute (W-MI) Index of Consumer Sentiment rose by 4.2 per cent ...

A smoking gun for the RBA

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2007
A pre-poll rate hike could be a shot across the bow of the coalition's election campaign love-boat, however a sooner rather than later approach to monetary tightening might make less of a splash. With second quarter headline inflation surging past the ...