Financial services is not the happiest place to be these days, and nobody’s mood would have been improved by a report last month from JPMorgan Australia chief economist, Stephen Walters. In it he predicts that a slowdown in China will lead to Australia’s unemployment rate doubling between now and late 2010, to a 9 per cent level not seen since Paul Keating’s days.
‘Brand Australia’ can be a fin services job creator
Financial services is not the happiest place to be these days, and nobody’s mood would have been improved by a report last month from JPMorgan Australia chief economist, Stephen Walters. In it he predicts that a slowdown in China will lead to Australia’s unemployment rate doubling between now and late 2010, to a 9 per cent level not seen since Paul Keating’s days. Hedge fund manager: Goodbye and get f—-d
Hedge fund manager Andrew Lahde spectacularly departed the industry last month after his one-year-old fund returned 866 per cent betting against the subprime collapse. The Californiabased manager’s “goodbye letter” blasted the industry for its greed and stupidity. The email has already been passed around more times than a credit default swap, but here are a … Read more
Hedge fund manager: Goodbye and get f—-d
Hedge fund manager Andrew Lahde spectacularly departed the industry last month after his one-year-old fund returned 866 per cent betting against the subprime collapse. The Californiabased manager’s “goodbye letter” blasted the industry for its greed and stupidity. The email has already been passed around more times than a credit default swap, but here are a … Read more
Even investment legends let sweet deals slip away
Readers of Mark Mobius’s book Passport to Profits will know of the 84 ‘Mobius Rules’ to emerging markets investing, which the investment guru has crafted over 21 years running the asset class for Templeton Asset Management. After attending a luncheon with the globetrotter who has built a career from buying up cheap stocks, Unbalanced thinks … Read more
Even investment legends let sweet deals slip away
Readers of Mark Mobius’s book Passport to Profits will know of the 84 ‘Mobius Rules’ to emerging markets investing, which the investment guru has crafted over 21 years running the asset class for Templeton Asset Management. After attending a luncheon with the globetrotter who has built a career from buying up cheap stocks, Unbalanced thinks … Read more
Fast-talking women are important to funds
SuperRatings’ first conference, A Day of Confrontation, turned out to be just that for a few of the industry’s more sensitive eyes and ears. One of the more entertaining sessions of the day, ‘The XY Factor’ presented by Amanda Stevens, highlighted to the audience the neurological differences between men and women and how funds can … Read more
Fast-talking women are important to funds
SuperRatings’ first conference, A Day of Confrontation, turned out to be just that for a few of the industry’s more sensitive eyes and ears. One of the more entertaining sessions of the day, ‘The XY Factor’ presented by Amanda Stevens, highlighted to the audience the neurological differences between men and women and how funds can … Read more
Cbus to bring ‘premier’ talent on board?
Ex-politicians know a thing or two about super. After all, most of them are on a doozy of a pension from the time they quit or get voted out, to the day they enter that big Upper House in the sky. Okay, so they might not know anything about the ‘decumulation phase’, but overall they’ve … Read more
Cbus to bring ‘premier’ talent on board?
Ex-politicians know a thing or two about super. After all, most of them are on a doozy of a pension from the time they quit or get voted out, to the day they enter that big Upper House in the sky. Okay, so they might not know anything about the ‘decumulation phase’, but overall they’ve … Read more
Some call it the golden age of philanthropy. It was heralded by the donations of super-rich ‘billanthropists’, Bill Gates and Warren Buffet, who committed a combined $US61 billion to The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2006. In Australia, giving has
The bosses of Australian companies generally ignore the mental health of their staff, with 70 per cent of workers saying their employers do not offer programs to support mental wellbeing, a survey by Superfriend finds. The survey polled 1,000 Australians to gauge attitudes to workers’ physical and mental wellbeing. Its findings were released at the … Read more
Some call it the golden age of philanthropy. It was heralded by the donations of super-rich ‘billanthropists’, Bill Gates and Warren Buffet, who committed a combined $US61 billion to The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2006. In Australia, giving has
The bosses of Australian companies generally ignore the mental health of their staff, with 70 per cent of workers saying their employers do not offer programs to support mental wellbeing, a survey by Superfriend finds. The survey polled 1,000 Australians to gauge attitudes to workers’ physical and mental wellbeing. Its findings were released at the … Read more
