ECO
Risk-reward gap too narrow
| Phil Ruthven
Phil Ruthven | As disturbing as the narrow yield gap between active and passive assets is the year-to-year volatility of asset classes and the ever-changing pecking order.
Governing principles
| Shane Oliver
History provides little reason to think the outcome of next month’s election will have a lasting impact on the sharemarket.
Taking tax too far
| Phil Ruthven
Phil Ruthven | Taxation has fallen off the radar for Australian businesses, but with the global movement of corporations, governments can’t push it too far.
House of the rising risk
| chris richardson
Chris Richardson | Australia may not have a housing price bubble, but the nation does face housing price risks.
Corker of a challenge
| Phil Ruthven
Phil Ruthven | The local wine industry has progressed to be the sixth-largest volume producer in the world, although China may well have overtaken this.
To cut or not to cut
| Kevin chinnery
Post-crisis priorities are a case of where you stand – literally.
New age spending
| Phil Ruthven
Phil Ruthven | In 1900, when the Australian economy was a third of the way into its Industrial Age, 62 per cent of household income was spent on goods from retail outlets.
Sunshine state obscured by clouds
| Chris Richardson
Chris Richardson | The lingering effects of the financial crisis are hurting Queensland more than the other states.
Life on the fringes
| Phil Ruthven
Phil Ruthven | The advent of fast-growing service industries and the internet has enabled Australia’s population to spread out to where it prefers to live.
China demands attention
| Alan Carroll
The recent symbolic visits of the two men likely to be China’s next top leaders have important implications for Australia.
Waving not drowning
| Phil Ruthven
Phil Ruthven | The information tsunami is upon us; and our choice is to run for cover or try to float, sink or swim.
Is Keynes dead?
| Chris Richardson
Chris Richardson | The general agreement is that the globe’s Keynesian stomp on the accelerator turned around a rapidly deteriorating situation.
New age, better age
| Phil Ruthven
Phil Ruthven | Although each age is welcome in giving us new industries and greater wealth, the one that follows is even better.
Allocate assets to improve returns
| Shane Oliver
Should you invest in global shares, Australian shares, global bonds, unlisted property, or cash?
Profits tax punishes the heroes
| Phil Ruthven
Phil Ruthven | Mining is, of course, a hero industry, and 2010 is an election year, all of which make the tax debate more shrill.
Suburbs outdo Rich 200
| Chris Richardson
Chris Richardson | Suburban families have outperformed the Rich 200 in the past couple of years.
Dangerous world of debt
| Phil Ruthven
Phil Ruthven | The Greek crisis was about that nation’s deadly cocktail of dangerously high public debt and massive budget deficits.
Taxes for the future
| alan Carroll
Australia’s government is not alone in seeking to capture a bigger tax take from its resources sector.
The devil at work
| Phil Ruthven
Phil Ruthven | Sin seems to be a clear winner in God’s and the Devil’s battle for market share.
Greek blip no GFC Mark II
| SHANE OLIVER
The strong global economy means the Greek crisis is unlikely to spread to another global crisis.
China’s big float
| Alan Carroll
Consider the implication of the Chinese currency increasing in value by 3-4 per cent during the 2010 calendar year.
A wealth of opportunity
| Phil Ruthven
Phil Ruthven | By June this year, the average household is expected to have a net worth of just over $680,000.
Smart beats lucky
| Phil Ruthven
Phil Ruthven | To have a high standard of living among the world’s 228 nations, a nation needs to be lucky or smart.
Population poser
| Chris Richardson
Chris Richardson | Record population gains are giving big Australia a bad name.
The marriage game
| Phil Ruthven
Phil Ruthven | Living longer, marring later, it’s all having a powerful effect on the economy.
Tourism tsunami
| Phil Ruthven
Phil Ruthven | Inbound tourism, particularly from China, could dwarf Australia’s minerals boom, if planners build the right infrastructure.
Sydney Melbourne’s poor cousin
| Chris Richardson
Chris Richardson | High property prices and planning inaction in Sydney have allowed Melbourne to steel a march over NSW and its capital.
Sinful profits
| Phil Ruthven
Phil Ruthven | Usury is the word usually associated with excessive interest rates. Popes banned it as far back as the 4th century, some declared it heresy.