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Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2007
Following the lead of the Western Australian Government, which announced a $300 million scheme whereby the State government would take a 30-40 per cent share in home ownership with 3,000 low to middle income earners, the national Labor spokeswoman for ...

Daily Economic Round Up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2006
The Monash University Centre for Economics of Education and Training has produces a report funded by the Dusseldorp Skills Forum that has found that there are about 540,000 young Australians not in full-time work or learning. Of this number 330,000 ...

Joining a DB fund the ultimate choice

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 3 NOV 2006
The forced demise of defined benefit (DB) super because of fund consolidation and a changing workforce has unfairly cast DB funds as last century thinking. But that totally misses the point. Ann Byrne, Unisuper chief executive officer, said, "People ...

Government must intervene more to promote savings: CEDA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2006
A leading Australian think tank has called for more interventionist government policy to ready us for the economic impacts of the ageing population. Ivan Deveson, chairman and national president of the Committee for Economic Development of Australia ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 OCT 2006
The recently released Dun & Bradstreet Business Expectations Survey showed that about a half of business executives expect prices to increase in the fourth quarter of this year and all sectors except wholesaling expect a negative growth in profits. ...

Men are better savers than women: Citibank

It's not the glass ceiling. A new study has found that men are more likely to have a better lifestyle come retirement because they tend to save more and save earlier than women. The Mars versus Venus debate reared its ugly head once again at the latest ...

DFA funds "holy grail" research on Aussie equities

One of the leading passive fund managers in the world, Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA) has funded an Australian-based research to find the "holy grail" model of evaluating Australian equities. UQ Business School's head Professor Tim Brailsford, Monash ...

Real estate a global game: LaSalle

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 SEP 2006
Globally is simply the best way to look at your listed real estate allocation, according to LaSalle Investment Management Real Estate Securities. According to managing director, Stanley Kraska, Jr, there are two simple reasons that global listed real ...

Tyndall bolsters Aussie equities team

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 12 SEP 2006
Tyndall has added to its Australian equities team with the appointment of a new dealer, Australian shares. Adam Ritter will assume responsibility for all of Tyndall's Australian equities dealing and derivatives trades and providing feedback to portfolio ...

It's Perennial all over again: Macoun

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 SEP 2006
Ian Macoun, co-founder of Perennial, said he would be doing it all over again with the launch of a new "house of boutiques", something he argues will be the best solution for boutique managers who struggle in other ownership structures. The new business ...