Dwelling starts down further weakness ahead

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Dwelling starts Australian dwelling starts fell by 5.3 per cent in the December quarter. The side in dwelling starts was due to weakness in activity in both the private and... Read more continue reading

Monthly household fuel bill hits $200

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Weekly Petrol Price; Imports According to the Australian Institute of Petroleum, the national average Australian price of unleaded petrol rose by 0.5 cents per litre to 143.2 cents a litre... Read more continue reading

La Niña weather event still dominates

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La Niña update Our last update on the La Niña weather event was published on February 14. At that time the Southern Oscillation index hit an 11-week low of +16.6... Read more continue reading

Russell further strengthens corporate super capabilities

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Geoff Peck appointed as MD of Russell’s corporate superannuation business Russell to build out market-leading individual investor experience Russell has further strengthened its corporate superannuation business with the announcement of... Read more continue reading

AFA/Tower launch Female Excellence in Advice Award to tackle the gender gap

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The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA), TOWER Australia and the Macquarie Graduate School of Management have joined forces to launch the AFA Female Excellence in Advice Award (the Award). The... Read more continue reading

Confidence returns as traders get active and more adventurous, CMC Markets survey says

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Traders get savvy with social media tools – websites, forums and blogs top the list SGX gets thumbs down while Chi-X more warmly received; almost one in four think the... Read more continue reading

Consumers start spending again

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CBA Business Spending index In line with anecdotal evidence, consumer spending strengthened in February. The Commonwealth Bank Business Sales Indicator (BSI) rose by 0.5 per cent in trend terms in... Read more continue reading

Bucking the trend in active asset management

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Aviva Investors’ delivers outperformance over 1, 3, 5 years While recent research from Standard & Poor’s (S&P)1, announced this week, shows that most active Australian equities managers are failing to... Read more continue reading

Construction jobs plunge; Airfares on rise

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Quarterly Labour force data; Over the three months to February, employment across Australia grew by just 0.1 per cent or 16,200 – marking the slowest pace of jobs growth in... Read more continue reading

Investment Briefing March 2011: Japan

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When catastrophe strikes somewhere in the world and many lives are lost, and the human suffering is unbearable for all involved, questions about the economic cost of the disaster and... Read more continue reading