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China's GDP and CPI blowout

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2007
... factories and cutting company profits. With the Central Bank aiming to keep CPI to within 3 per cent, this outcome has fuelled debate on whether China is likely to raise interest rates this quarter to cool inflation and investment. That's the consensus ...

Avanteos platform fails to find buyer

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2007
... Goldman Sachs JBWere in January, leaving it with a reported $11 billion in funds under management. The sale's failure opens debate as to where this leaves the bank's platform strategy, following group executive of wealth management Grahame Peterson's ...

Economic round-up: Cheeseburger bill meets fat tax

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2007
Where legislation fails taxation often takes over and, following on from the cheeseburger bill, UK doctors and the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit are now debating a fat tax. And what in the name of Ronald Macdonald is a 'Cheeseburger Bill'? When it's ...

Bank planners promote gearing strategies

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 2 JUL 2007
One issue hotly debated in the financial planning community in the months leading up to the 30 June superannuation contribution deadline was whether to recommend that clients use debt to help them reach the $1 million contribution limit. While independent ...

Economic round-up: The great interest rate debate

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2007
... Brisbane last week, RBA Governor Glenn Stevens was careful but upbeat on the state of the economy, however the interest rate debate has continued unabated. To many, Steven's remarks were interpreted as "rates wont budge in July," while others believe ...

Taxes should not target PE: BVCA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2007
... secretive financiers as the TUC seem to imply but to pension funds, they are the biggest investors," he said. This latest debate between the BVCA and the TUC is just the latest instalment in the increasingly political spotlight being shone on private ...

Beware the private equity trap

... identify where their business was falling down and help rectify those problems." Whether that is the case or not is up for debate at en event titled "Private Equity Investors rather than Insolvency Practitioners are better equipped to add value in a ...

Much ado over Northern Trust

Investment industry consultant Morse Consulting has thrown in a contrarian view on the emotive debate surrounding the Future Fund's decision to outsource its custodian needs to offshore player Northern Trust. "Some general media comment recently has ...

Public equity under pressure

... "The issue is not private equity but what's wrong with public equity," said Future Fund chairman, David Murray, as the debate heats up over the long-term impact of private equity takeovers on the publicly listed companies sector. Commenting on the round ...

New Jersey Govt spends teachers' future fund

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2007
... destined for retirement funding had been diverted to cover more immediate expenditure, in a theme echoing some of the recent debate around Australia's Future Fund being used to fund government infrastructure projects. Despite initial claims by Treasury ...