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MLC pools developed and emerging markets portfolios

Multi-manager giant MLC is the seed investor to Capital International's new 'All Country World' (ACWI) strategy, which combines investments in both developed markets and emerging markets under one roof. MLC investment manager Michelle Heinrich said ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 14 NOV 2006
The changing structure of world trade is again in focus with the release of information on Australian exports showing that those going to Asia rose from 57 per cent to 62 per cent in the five years to 2005 at the same time that exports to the US fell ...

Smart 401(k) plan design boosts their take-up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 NOV 2006
Research from the US-based Investment Company Institute (ICI) reveals smart 401(k)s plan design is a big factor in their take up. "Research generally indicates that offering employer matching contributions or a loan provision increases participation. ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2006
Just released data on housing finance for owner occupation shows that in seasonally adjusted terms there was a 2.3 per cent decrease in the total value of housing commitments excluding alterations and additions but a significant increase of commercial ...

Banks take a softly, softly approach to electronic banking

WWW.THESHEET.COM.AU  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2006
Banks believe greater use of electronic banking services will result in a lower incidence of payment fraud, but they are taking a very cautious approach to change. Since October, amendments to the Uniform Consumer Credit Code have meant that a debtor ...

Daily Economic Round Up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2006
The Monash University Centre for Economics of Education and Training has produces a report funded by the Dusseldorp Skills Forum that has found that there are about 540,000 young Australians not in full-time work or learning. Of this number 330,000 ...

Broker gets jail term for forgery

A former options advisor and stockbroker has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison on 27 forgery charges and for trading $1.28 million worth of his clients' shares without their knowledge. In a case bearing some resemblance to the now infamous ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2006
Yesterday's rise in interest rates takes the total to five rate rises since 2002, totalling 2 per cent, and the fourth since the last election when Prime Minister Howard promised to keep rates low. As a consequence the average household will be paying ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 NOV 2006
The Reserve Bank of Australia has decided to increase interest the cash rate by 0.25 basis points to 6.25 per cent saying that it took note of the likely economic effects of the drought on farm and national income. The RBA said that domestic demand ...

Absolute returns not high risk

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 NOV 2006
Super funds increasing their allocations to hedge funds and absolute strategies are not increasing their risk weightings because such strategies are really aimed at adding greater diversification. Scott MacDonald, managing director of VanMac Global ...