Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 841 - 850 of 903 results for "NAR"

Daily economic update

The US trade balance narrowed to a deficit of US$65.74 billion in February from a record US$68.59 billion deficit in the previous month. Market expectations were for a deficit of US$67.5 billion. US exports fell by 1.2 per cent as a 5.8 per cent drop ...

Daily Economic Update

The US National Association of Realtors (NAR) expects existing home sales to fall by 6.0 per cent this year, new home sales to drop by 10.9 per cent and housing starts to decline by 3.2 per cent. These forecasts, if proved correct, have serious ramifications ...

Investec Australia buys NM Rothschild

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 7 APR 2006
Specialist investment bank Investec Bank Australia yesterday said it signed a heads of agreement to acquire NM Rothschild & Sons (Australia). A statement issued by Investec group head office in South Africa said the transaction represents a value of ...

Know thy market: Deloitte

The buying power of the baby boomer generation is undeniable but the latest Deloitte survey found the industry should adopt new ways to address the needs of this market. The consulting firm has released a report titled "Wealth with wisdom - serving ...

Local and global equities fuel returns: SelectingSuper

Superannuation and allocated pension fund members' returns have risen in the year ended January 2006 thanks to the strength of the local equities market and the rebound of international equities. According to the latest SelectingSuper performance index ...

IFSA to pressure Government for super tax breaks

IFSA will renew the push for the Government to cut front-end superannuation tax, saying such incentives would stem the current retirement savings gap of $452 billion to less than half of its current size. IFSA's Richard Gilbert said high on the agenda ...

Industry super funds trump retail master trusts, again

Research commissioned by Industry Fund Services (IFS) shows that industry super funds continue to outperform retail master trusts. The research, carried out by Rainmaker and SuperRatings, also highlighted that this is the eighth consecutive quarter ...

Companies make smooth IFRS transition: ASIC

Australian companies have made a smooth transition to the Australian equivalent to IFRS, according to an ASIC review into the implementation of the new reporting standards. Jeffrey Lucy, chairman of ASIC, released ASIC's findings. "Transition to AIFRS ...

Daily economic update

The US trade deficit narrowed to US$64.2 billion in November, from US$68.1 billion in the previous month, and was better than the expected US$66.1 billion. While the narrower trade gap is welcome, it remains the third highest deficit on record. US exports ...

FOHFs get the nod from van Eyk

van Eyk have released research which prescribes fund of hedge funds (FOHFs) as an attractive risk-return inclusion in portfolios, provided investors are willing to stomach high fees. van Eyk's senior research analyst Dr Jerome Lander said that FOHFs ...