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Australia catches Dutch Disease

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2008
... sustain and instead may signal deeper problems about to confront us. Reflecting this, Professor Wolfgang Fischer from the School of Economics at James Cook University in North Queensland, said, "the terms of trade should not be used as synonymous with ...

Coordinated policy will boost population and capacity

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2008
Boosting economic capacity means we need people and need people to have babies, but government policy to encourage this requires better integration. The Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS) just released a major review titled Fertility and ...

NGS awards $150m mandate to Solaris

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2008
Non-Government Schools Super has awarded a $150 million mandate to boutique fund manager Solaris Investment Management after retracting its initial offer to Suncorp. NGS Super initially awarded the mandate to Suncorp last November but jumped ship when ...

IFFP diverts commissions to charity

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2008
... effort to help child labourers receive an education. Last year, IFFP donated $15,000 to the project designed to build a school in Punjab, bringing its total donation amount to $200,000. "Industry Fund Financial Planning is a fee for service organisation. ...

New era for investment analysts

... the world of the investment analyst completely upside down and has inspired the industry's leading experts to go back to "school" to teach the new rules. The Investment Management Consultants Association (IMCA) co-chair of education Angela Ashton said ...

Councils take action on CDOs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR AND RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2008
... packages may not know how to fairly value them or what the risks were inside them," said Martin Gold from the Graduate School of Business at the University of Wollongong. Gold recently explored the issue in his research paper Reform of Investment Organisation ...

Magellan builds infrastructure team

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2008
... Magellan, Webster spent five years at Capital Partners, and four years as an academic at the University of New South Wales' school of banking and finance. Webster focused primarily on the transport and infrastructure sectors during his tenure at Capital ...

World bank names new chief economist

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2008
... economics at the World Bank. Lin replaces Francois Bourguignon in May, after he retired to become director of the Paris School of Economics. He previously held roles on the United Nations Millennium Task Force on Hunger, the Working Group, the Eminent ...

Back to school for MA providers

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2008
It may soon be school season for the Institute of Managed Accounts Providers (IMAP) members as the professional body prepares to uncover an education program to promote awareness of the managed accounts (MA) industry. According to Tracy Byrne, IMAP ...

Zurich sets up Climate Change council

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2008