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Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 20 OCT 2006
... a high for the last quarter of 1.77 million. This follows a fall of 26 per cent over the past seven months. The University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment survey rose to 136 index points from 116 a month earlier which is the highest it has been for just ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 OCT 2006
... July income tax had positive effects on their business. Research by the Industrial Relations Research Centre at the University of New South Wales has revealed that 37 per cent of employees who have casual work contracts seek more work. This comes after ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 16 OCT 2006
... result to show that consumer demand remains buoyant beyond what has happened to the housing industry in the US. The University of Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index has risen in tandem. Australian commodities continue their strength with nickel and lead ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 25 SEP 2006
... students undertaking coursework masters versus the 50,000 enrolled in masters and doctoral degrees by research. At the University of Melbourne there are about 700 of the 4,000 research students from the international community whereas at the Central ...

Space-Time Research attracts VCs

... VCs, just for starters. Jolimont and Star Fish are keeping their chequebooks open. STR was founded in 1986 as a University of Melbourne research project. It makes and develops statistical and survey processing software solutions used by leading statistics ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 AUG 2006
... of government funding, expect that the take up of AWAs is likely to remain at about the 2 per cent level. Of 600 University of Technology, Sydney staff offered such agreements in April and May of this year only about 25 employees accepted the proposition. ...

Budget reforms exacerbate risks for Gen L: Asteron

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUN 2006
... said the industry needs to help raise the issue and then work on solutions. "We are commissioning research with the University of NSW on the increased longevity risk," said Croswell, adding that the industry needs to "increase the dialogue with policy ...

MillhouseIAG brings private equity to retail

... the founding general manager of UniQuest, one of the country's key exporters of new technologies spun out of the University of Queensland. David Millhouse said that the new retail fund, the MillhouseIAG Private Equity fund, is unique in that it offers ...

Super funds to inject $1.5bn more into Aussie hedge funds

... the next two to five years, an increase from the current average allocation of 2.9 per cent to 4.1 per cent. The University of NSW's Faculty of Commerce and Economics did a study in January 2006 to measure the current level of hedge fund investing by ...

Tyndall strengthens analyst team

... where he reviewed individually managed accounts, set up compliance models and performed equities research. Both are University of Sydney graduates with Chan holding a masters of commerce in finance and economics and Whight holding a bachelor of commerce ...