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Good jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2011
... year-on-year decline (yes, decline of 0.4 per cent) and continued contracting for another seven months. Eighteen months after the GFC-induced recession, the annual rate of growth in employment was 0.51 per cent in November 2010 and up to 1.0 per cent ...

Tomorrow comes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2011
... components were above 50 with the employment reading jumping to its highest level since April 2006 - yes this was before the GFC. US economic conditions are improving enough that even Jobs came out of sick bay. Yes, Steve Jobs took leave from his medical ...

ACFS awards innovation and investment stewardship

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2011
... innovation was the 12-month term for initial investment it had in place since 2004. This allowed La Trobe to ride through the GFC without the redemption and performance issues that plagued other mortgage funds. Meanwhile, the winner of the 2011 VFMC ...

Super heavyweights reach out to younger members

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2011
... that it is too far away and too complicated, plus horror stories from older generations about their super being hit by the GFC," said Westover, adding that the ATO will be using Youth Week as a starting point, with updated webpages also a key point. ...

Rethink before you rebuild

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2011
... old thinking by regulators is a major reason why they missed the warning signs in the global financial system prior to the GFC. They were missed because the financial system was viewed incorrectly as a series of independent machines that pump money into ...

SMSFs increase reliance on ETFs

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2011
... there was close to $5 billion worth of ETF products invested in the Australian market in July 2010. Corbett noted that the GFC has boosted the profile of ETFs and said that gearing via self funding installment warrants could become a viable option to ...

Seniors question policy hold-up on retirement

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2011
... income planning but there isn't a retirement income policy that pulls all these strands together." O'Neill said that after the GFC many retirees have had to maintain their working lifestyle, with upcoming reforms now threatening to push their retirement ...

Desert storm

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2011
... mideast turmoil is causing some anxiety among investors but the key word here is some. And this is because, similar to the GFC and Europe's debt crisis, authorities would not sit idly by and wait for Armageddon. Not only because they feel sorry for the ...

PE-Backed IPO exits top $10bn in 2011 YTD

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
... managers either get their investment capital back or crystalise large profits from deals they seized or nurtured through the GFC. "As market conditions have started to improve, private equity firms have been able to exit some of the investments made ...

GFC hangover hits Perpetual profit

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 FEB 2011
A goodwill write-down from a pre-GFC purchase helped drag down wealth manager Perpetual's first-half profits by 29 per cent year-on-year to $35 million for the six months to December. The $10.6 million goodwill write-down comes from their 2008 purchase ...