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Fix productivity, fix education

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2008
All the debate about up-skilling through sharpening our educational curriculum might be missing one key detail - students don't like technical subjects and it's a major long term threat to our global productivity. A review just released by the Australian ...

Managed accounts expands asset mix

... on managed accounts early this month, David Heather, head of distribution at Investment Administration Services said the debate should move away from managed accounts versus platforms but rather that one follows the other. "I think managed accounts should ...

CFA takes ethics inhouse

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2008
... CFA Code of Ethics and examines ASIC insider trading and fraud case studies. Participants then gather in small groups and debate six to eight hypothetical case studies which cover insider trading, client gifts and internet privacy.

US regulation review models Australia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
... The US is moving to an upgraded financial system regulatory model that should remind Australian wealth managers of the debate we had a decade ago during the Wallis Report. Central to the proposed reforms that seem to suggest Australia has become somewhat ...

Scrap $5bn super funds

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2008
Warren Chant of Chant West said super funds with $5 billion or less "should not be in existence", but others are calling his claims over the top. Heated debates on the role of fund ratings firms at yesterday's CMSF conference saw Chant ply the notion ...

Super structure needs fixing

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2008
... conflicts of interest and lack of consumer engagement in super," he said. Whiteley said that an often silent element in the debate about adequacy is the impact of fees, commissions and investment performance has on a member's final pay out. According ...

ANZ sets the scene for capital raising

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2008
... the Australian British Chamber of Commerce in Melbourne, Smith said: "One of the many things I believe is missing in this debate is that if we can't properly reprice lending, there is a real risk banks will ultimately be limited in the amount we are ...

Australia catches Dutch Disease

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2008
... increases and distorts fair allocation of resources across the economy. In this context, our current political and economic debate - or plea - for government to direct more resources into infrastructure, labour supply, education and housing may be no ...

Retail profits, currency price cuts and ag-flation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2008
... contradictory policy suggestions and forcing retailers to pass on currency induced price cuts. Australia's major economic debate is how the May Budget can be used to control rising consumer spending and take heat out of the Reserve Bank's mood for raising ...

Coordinated policy will boost population and capacity

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2008
... notwithstanding the ABS recently released figures showing how Australian fertility was at a 14 year peak. However with economic debate now focused on how to battle long term inflation by lifting capacity in Australia, policies to increase the population ...