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Sydney's financial centre ranking slips five places

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 27 SEP 2011
Australia's push to become a significant regional financial centre appears to have stalled following the latest Global Financial Centre Index report that shows while Australia is improving its credentials, other cities are improving theirs more quickly. ...

Be glad for A$ weakness

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2011
... the 2001 US recession and September 11 by depreciating from US$0.65 to below US$0.50. It cushioned the economy during the GFC when it dropped from US$0.9786 on 15 July 2008 to US$0.6036 on 27 October 2008 when the global financial system was in chaos. ...

Waiting and hoping

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2011
... greater economic multipliers. America would have done better if it adhered to actor Russell Crowe's advice at the height of the GFC to "give everyone a million bucks" - ok, maybe not that much but the point is it would have been better targeted. The ...

ASIC opens dialogue with hedge funds

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 15 SEP 2011
... Association (AIMA) Australian Hedge Fund Forum in Sydney that greater regulatory focus on the hedge fund industry is a post-GFC fact of life, but that it is part of a new dialogue. The new ASIC chairman told delegates at the forum that the GFC had focused ...

FUM market slides back to $1.4tr

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 SEP 2011
... contributions for the past 12 months increasing to $130 billion, up 11% through the year. The FUM market is now up 23% from its post-GFC March 2009 nadir but still down 7% compared to its December 2007 peak of $1.5 trillion. But superannuation has recovered ...

Super funds signal intention to delve into overseas property

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2011
... to overseas investments, while they have also been reluctant due to concerns about foreign exchange risk, memories of the GFC and the strength of the domestic market. "Over half of respondents (56.4%) named lack of knowledge of offshore property as a ...

Super funds need to guide members: Investment Trends

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2011
... help their members find a way forward." The report also found investors have been living in a panic cycle since 2008 when the GFC prompted high levels of stress. Since that time, investors and members are quick to panic with ongoing volatility causing ...

It's official, Rudd saved Australia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2011
... is being reported today that Treasury believe it was really former prime minister Kevin Rudd who saved Australia from the GFC and not the mining industry, but before we get too excited the analysis simply confirms that we don't just have a two-speed ...

Ideas count and Australia is up to 69,000

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2011
... gloom, Australia has just received a very welcome fillip - trade mark applications by Australian businesses are up-to pre GFC levels and have broken through the 69,000 barrier. Even better news is that these applications are in more categories than ever ...

Coin toss

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2011
... otherwise. This is because recent indicators out of America had been mixed at best. This was unlike the signals back during the GFC days when most where pointing to a slump - and so it was but natural to expect stimulation to tickle the economy back ...