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The long hot summer

SUZY MAC | WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2007

Things are heating up in Australia and it's not just our share market and the rising value of the dollar, current greenhouse gas emissions are set to fry the climate making Australia dryer and hotter over the next 20-60 years. According to a report ...

Water's potential to float

SUZY MAC | WEDNESDAY, 1 AUG 2007

With Federal and State Governments drowning in debate over how best to manage water, Citi has published economic research on the use of market forces and price to allocate this scarce resource. Shane Lee, Citi economist, believes opportunities are being ...

Economic round-up: Infrastructure - sink or swim?

SUZY MAC | THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2007

Weakness in our infrastructure just wont go away as a new report by the Prime Minister's chief scientific panel warns that climate changes are presenting further challenges to infrastructure and the future of our economy. Independent think tank, CEDA ...

Economic round-up: Beijing tugging the reins

SUZY MAC | MONDAY, 21 MAY 2007

... accounts - on May 8 alone; a record 385,121 new accounts were opened. As a result of this retail investor-fest, the benchmark CSI 300 Index hiked 85 per cent to mid-May since the start of this year. According to Bloomberg the index is valued at 43 times ...

China's market party gets louder

SUZY MAC | MONDAY, 14 MAY 2007

China's stock market party is getting wilder and no one is listening to calls to turn the music down - it seems that investors are just having too much fun. China is leading the world in IPO volumes and new share offerings are often doubling in value ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL | WEDNESDAY, 28 MAR 2007

In a report surveying 19 core industry groups and 7,426 employers in Australia, recruitment and talent management company Hudson found that a net 34 per cent of employers expect to increase staff numbers over the forthcoming second quarter of 2007. ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL | FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2007

The good work done by the Productivity Commission with another seminal report addressing the issue of Australia's capacity to improve and match the performance of the likes of the US has been released. The paper notes that while some European countries ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL | THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2007

Some good news with respect to Australia's skills development and technological strength following the announcement by Education, Science and Training Minister Julie Bishop that the national science organisation CSIRO will receive $2.5 billion in funding. ...

APRA appoints head of numbers team

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has appointed a new general manager, statistics. APRA announced that Dr Steve Davies will be moving into the role of general manager, statistics. Davies has been with APRA since 1999, prior to which ...

Industry figures to participate on Government's super choice committee

Howard Rosario, CEO, Westcheme and Linda Elkins, director of 'Education Key' - a joint initiative between REST, Sunsuper and STA - will be part of the Government's superannuation choice of fund advisory committee. The five-person independent advisory ...

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Australian Unity to shed 195 roles

MATTHEW WAI

Australian Unity is reducing its workforce by 195 positions due to underperformance stemming from delays in government support for its Home Health platform and the integration of several businesses.

Count shutters limited-advice business, slips in size ranking

MATTHEW WAI

Count Financial has reportedly wound up its restricted SMSF/limited-advice service, losing some 26 advisers on the Financial Adviser Register, latest data shows.

First Super recruits head of investments from Prime Super

MATTHEW WAI

First Super has appointed a new head of investments, replacing Chris Artis, who was in the position for the past three months on an interim basis.

BMO eyes Euroz Hartleys' capital markets business

KARREN VERGARA

Euroz Hartleys confirmed it is in discussions with Canada's BMO Financial Group for a potential sale of its capital markets business for $145 million.

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