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Rents to jump 50 pct, inflation to hit 4 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2008
... over the next five years by forecaster BIS Shrapnel. Coming on a day when our Reserve Bank Governor told a parliamentary inquiry that they are expecting inflation to hit 4 per cent, news of rents sky rocketing just adds to our woes. But before we get ...

Senate admits age pension falls short

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2008
... by cost increases in essential goods and services - food, rent, petrol, household utilities and healthcare," noted the inquiry. The number of older Australians likely to suffer these cost of living pressures will increase in the future, the report confirmed. ...

Retail profits, currency price cuts and ag-flation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2008
... exchange rates. A reformist government and one with a penchant for holding inquiries must surely be itching to now conduct an inquiry into retailers and their currency pricing practices, especially as the political upside would be so tempting as we enter ...

Australia's reversing fertility

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2008
... focus on whether we should introduce paid maternity and paternity leave and review the structure of the bay bonus. A major inquiry reviewing the former is expected to report early next year.

Lending practices lack clarity

Should non-conforming lenders conform? A parliamentary inquiry into mortgage lending practices has prompted leading accounting firm Deloitte to call for more transparency and disclosure in the lending industry. Amid a housing market spooked by the US ...

The big bounce

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2007
... mortgage market share. The easy credit may be drying up but Private Equity players won a reprieve of sorts in a parliamentary inquiry, triggered by the Qantas and Coles takeovers. With Private Equity deals only forming one percent of the equity market ...

Four pillars policy no longer relevant

... that scrapping the policy is long overdue because many changes have happened to the banking industry since the Wallis inquiry, including the growth of non-banks and superannuation-related investments. "On the face of it, we have a policy that is contributing ...

Fin services not delivering

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2007
Ten years after the Wallis financial system inquiry, the industry has failed to deliver on its promise and continues to lag the rest of the economy while it has also become an export failure, highlighting that the inquiry really delivered very few tangible ...

No special rules needed for PE: FSA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2007
In a pointer to where the Senate Inquiry into private equity will most likely head, the UK Financial Services Authority (FSA) has issued a statement about how it intends to regulate private equity - collect more statistics, hold yet more inquiries but ...

Regulation of private equity unlikely to change

... said his finding was based on an assessment of the 21 submissions made to the Senate Standing Committee on Economics' inquiry into the regulation of private equity. The committee was asked for an assessment of domestic and international trends concerning ...