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AFA soft skills forum attracts 600

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2007
The soft skills traveling forum conducted by the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) last month attracted more then 600 advisers and delegates throughout Perth, Sydney, Adelaide, Hobart, Brisbane and Melbourne who heard how they can develop their ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2007
A plunge on Wall St triggered by further jitters about the subprime mortgage market is likely to hit local stocks today, with the market expected to open the week sharply lower. At 0727 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the September share price ...

Australian economy to lose shine in 2025

London-based economic futurist and author Hamish McRae predicts that the US will remain the largest economic hub in the world by 2025 with China a close second but that Australia will be overtaken by India and Mexico. Speaking at this year's Fidelity ...

FTSE launches climate change criteria into SRI indices

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2007
Global index provider the FTSE Group has launched a new set of climate change criteria for including companies in their FTSE4Good Index Series. The new criteria identify companies FTSE believe have positive records on Corporate Sustainability Responsibility ...

Interest rates on the way down

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2007
Two of three leading economists told the 450 people attending today's Financial Standard Economic Forum they expect interest rates to fall this year while another said it was a national scandal Australia's productivity growth had stalled. Saul Eslake ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JAN 2007
Consumer Price Index data has just been released by the ABS showing that inflation is now running at 3.3 per cent on an annual basis, above the Reserve Bank's target range of 2-3 per cent. The CPI did, however, decrease from the September to the December ...

Top insurers join with IFF to help with mental health

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 8 DEC 2006
... retirement savings and one way to do this is do help members live long enough to spend it, which is why the Industry Funds Forum (IFF) mental health campaign is so important. If it helps the bottom-line of super funds through better insurance deals then ...

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 ...

Thomson Financial launches peHub private equity blogsite

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 7 NOV 2006
Thomson Financial, responding to the surge in private equity investment activity, has launched Private Equity Hub, an interactive forum for the private equity venture capitalists, buy-outs professionals and service providers. Thomson Financial said ...

Reverse mortgage regulation lacks cohesion

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 24 OCT 2006
Regulation is one of the key talking points around the equity release and reverse mortgage industry, but the Senior Australians Equity Release Association of Lenders (SEQUAL) conference last week heard that no one body yet has the jurisdiction to regulate ...