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Best house in the slums

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 DEC 2010
... calling for a double dip might get it right. But nothing could be further from the truth. Australia's still the Lucky Country, thank you very much. Just last week, the ABS reported that employment rose by 54,600 in November - nearly double the previous ...

Australia's big bro

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 OCT 2010
... intertwined with the fortune cookie that is China. China is one of the major reasons why Australia remained the "Lucky Country" despite the fierce global financial crisis storm that battered most developed economies. China is one of the major reasons ...

From ratchet to resilient: an economy in bloom

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2010
... professionals who attended already knew this, but for those who wanted the details on why Australia will continue to be the 'lucky country', the presenters didn't disappoint. Stay within the flags Stammer said that in the past, the local economy has ...

Research finds country bias in pension asset allocation

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2010
... three-fold increase since 1999 when the allocation was a low 8 per cent. The research also reinforced Australia's "lucky country" label. Not only did the Australian economy emerged the most resilient after the US-led financial crisis, it also comes up ...

Still a lucky country: research

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2009
Around 40 per cent of Australians expect their household finances to improve next quarter compared with only 3.7 per cent bracing for the worst, research shows. This week industry body IFSA and research firm CoreData have released their quarterly investor ...

Lucky country

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2009
Australian superannuation and sovereign fund assets grew over 14 per cent p.a. in local currency terms in the past five years, posting the highest growth in assets than any other country, research shows. The Watson Wyatt and Pensions & Investments research ...

Lucky, lucky, lucky

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2009
... For a teeny-weeny land that represents only around 2 per cent of the global economy, nobody expected that this "lucky country" would be this lucky. While the biggest economies of the world thank their lucky stars that the pace of contraction in their ...

Higher...higher and higher

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2009
... itself out of the hole it blew itself - and the rest of the world - down into. Things are surer Downunder. Heck, the Lucky Country is so lucky, financial markets are betting even-money odds that the RBA will start raising interest rates already as early ...

Goldilocks Budget 2009

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
... could create. Ahh, the good old days. And why not? Times have been good. It has been almost a generation since 'The Lucky Country' experienced a recession. I still recall back in 1990/91 when the Federal Treasury's Budget Papers were neatly stocked in ...

Rated AAA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2009
... Investments - direct and portfolio - would slow because Australia is no longer rated AAA. Shucks! We would be 'the lucky country' no more! The Sunday Age reported that while Standard & Poor's has maintained Australia's AAA-rating, it warned that '...if ...

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QIC backs startup investor

ANDREW MCKEAN  |   12:39PM
Queensland Investment Corporation's (QIC) Venture Capital Development Fund has made an investment in technology investor Tidal Ventures.

Clearway wins distribution mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |   11:53AM
Clearway Capital Solutions has partnered with a global fund manager to bring Asia-focused strategies to local wholesale and institutional investors.

Australian Ethical updates investment guide

ELIZA BAVIN  |   11:37AM
The super fund has updated its ethical investment guide to highlight the positive and negative factors it considers before making an investment.

Monochrome launches Bitcoin ETF amid first-mover dispute

ANDREW MCKEAN  |   12:41PM
Monochrome Asset Management has launched an Australian Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF).

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