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Census 2011: Australia is changing, and fast

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012
... and Indian Australians are now our largest non-anglo heritage groupings and the West Asian language of Punjabi is the fastest growing second language. Add in Cantonese and China based languages are now almost 3-times more widely used than Italian, whose ...

New switching device cuts latency

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2012
Trading times are on the brink of becoming even quicker with today's launch of the world's fastest switching device with a latency of 130 nanoseconds. "There was a time not that long ago when nobody cared about network devices and they were viewed as ...

Property syndicate launches for HNW and SMSFs

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2012
... expected to outperform given the current climate and strong employment growth prospects. "SMSF investors are by far the fastest growing area of the superannuation segment and their investment portfolios tend to have a higher allocation to property investments ...

That anxious wait

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2012
... manufacturing index that in March rose to its highest level since June 2011. There's April industrial production growing at its fastest since December 2010. There's the bigger than expected increase in housing starts last month. There's first quarter ...

Optimistic outlook for industry growth: Research

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2012
... surprised to see that SMSFs didn't feature in the top three growth categories for any state surveyed. Given this is the fastest growing segment in the superannuation space, I think there are still a number of advisers looking at how they can be serving ...

BTFG cash earnings down, FUM increases

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2012
... superannuation, advice and insurance needs of the Westpac retail banks' customers is sector-leading and St. George's is the fastest growing," Cooper said. "We've increased our bank planner footprint by 8% and we also hold the highest revenue per adviser ...

No fear no greed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2012
... president Ian Ashby started it all when he told reporters in Perth that "China's steel production is slowing as the world's fastest-growing major economy starts to shift to focus more on consumers than large building projects" (Bloomberg). Commodities ...

Investment FUM nears $1.4 trillion

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAR 2012
... 1.6%, resulting in FUM still being below the pre-GFC peak of $1.5 trillion it reached December 2007, they noted. The five fastest growing asset classes over the 12 months were private equity which increased 28%, Infrastructure (up 18%), hedge funds (up ...

No please explain needed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2012
... more of them last night. US fourth quarter 2011 real GDP growth was revised higher to an annualised rate of 3% -- the fastest pace in six quarters -- from the initial estimate of 2.8%. Then there's the Chicago purchasing managers index. The PMI increased ...

SMSFs the new retail

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2012
... to target them but there has been more retail investors that have contacted us for our product... probably one of the fastest growing segments has been the SMSF market and it's been very much self directed and non- advised from an investment perspective." ...