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Tassies downsize to upsize retirement

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2007
Many Tasmanians intend to sell their current home to part-fund their retirement and move to a 'smaller' property, a decision that could lead them into financial strife, according to Quadrant super chief executive Wayne Davy. Quadrant commissioned a ...

Scary markets II

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2007
Offshore markets rolled over and played dead again overnight, scared silly by another petrol price spike, while the Aussie dollar continued to run on ahead. The Australian dollar rose to a fresh 23-year high of 0.9090, after opening in London at 0.9030 ...

Raging bull in sub-prime abattoir

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2007
The offshore-bulls were running rampant overnight, straight into the abattoir as rumours of a huge sub-prime loss for Merrill Lynch proved to be true. The world's biggest brokerage firm Merrill Lynch reported a blowout in losses in its third quarter ...

Rate reprieve scratch during Cup Carnival?

MICHELLE BALTAZAR AND SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2007
Worse-than-expected CPI figures could crash the Melbourne Cup Carnival, while the Aussie dollar dances to the beat of the rate hike speculation. The trimmed mean consumer price index (CPI) figure rose to 0.9 per cent in the September quarter and consensus ...

CommBank gets online upgrades

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2007
Riding on the increase in user traffic, the Commonwealth Bank has rolled out a series of IT upgrades to its website, designed to improve online security and cut by nearly half the time spent by customers navigating through their various web pages. The ...

ING OneCare Express speeds up insurance

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 18 OCT 2007
ING Australia has launched OneCare Express, a web based insurance application that takes the pain out of the insurance process and creates a straightforward and intuitive system to benefit clients and advisers. Mark Vilo, ING's head of marketing and ...

Australia's growth spurt

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 18 OCT 2007
Everyone's working and everyone's shopping and that's what will keep driving our economy, according to data released yesterday on Australia's economic growth forecasts. Like a healthy teenager, Australia's economy is exceeding all expectations with ...

Back to basics: Vanguard

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2007
Investors may have had a great run over the last twenty-five years, but the 20-year anniversary of 'Black Tuesday' reinforced the need to look back and learn the lessons of the last two decades, according to visiting Vanguard chairman and chief executive ...

Another rabbit out of the hat

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2007
On day one of the 'official' election campaign, the Howard government pulled one big rabbit out of the campaign hat with yet more tax cuts, this time to the tune of $34 billion over the next three years. No one voiced cynicism over the timing when Treasurer ...

Governance returns sour Asian alternatives outlook

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2007
Investors in Hong Kong, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur are avoiding alternative investment classes, according to a new Watson Wyatt survey, citing inadequate governance and a feeling diversification will dilute returns. 51 per cent of respondents in Hong ...