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Fed Govt creates financial services task force

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2008
The Rudd Labor Government has called on senior government officials to form the Financial Services Working Group, aimed at dealing with financial services advice and disclosure issues. The Financial Services Working Group includes senior officers from ...

Unsticking the CAD

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2008
The real story in yesterday's rates rise is that despite the surging economy making the rate rise necessary, the current account deficit (CAD) is still stuck on 6 per cent. According to the ABS, our CAD has been 5.5 to 6 per cent of GDP for the last ...

Credit Suisse pairs up with Julius Baer

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2008
Credit Suisse Asset Management has expanded its multi-boutique platform by partnering with international equities manager Julius Baer Investment Management (JBIM). The first JBIM product is expected to be available to Credit Suisse clients by the second ...

World growth to drop by one-fifth, but no US recession: IMF

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2008
World economic growth is expected to drop by one-fifth in 2008 to 4.1 per cent down from 4.9 per cent, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). "There was a risk that the ongoing turmoil in financial markets would further reduce domestic ...

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 ...

More bulls than bears

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2008
More than three quarters of Australian investment managers expect high corporate earnings growth in Australia, a far more optimistic view than their US and European counterparts, according to an AXA Rosenberg survey. AXA Rosenberg surveyed 196 investment ...

Cautiously upbeat: Economists Forum

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2008
Sub-prime was the American Dialect Society's 2007 word of the year but 2008's might be stagflation or even agflation, leading economists told today's Chief Economists Forum in Sydney. "There is a recession in US housing and it will get worse and even ...

Marsupials and the money market

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2008
US-Aust interest rate differentials are now at a four year and almost all time high after this morning's US rate rise, putting even more pressure on central banks around the world to follow suit irrespective of local fundamentals. The US rate drop to ...

ITG launches Triton Asia Pacific

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2008
The Investment Technology Group (ITG) has released its buy side product, Triton, to Australian traders giving them access to Asia Pacific equity markets. Triton allows buy-side traders to trade more than 30,000 equities across Asia Pacific using a simple ...

So much to do, so little time

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2008
The US is still undoubtedly the centre of world finance, but no one should underestimate the enormous challenge in turning their economy around. In yesterday's State of the Union address, President Bush said their recurrent fiscal budget is such a huge ...