
Gauri Kashelkar could not be more grateful that Devdatta, her barely two-week old boy, was born in Sydney. Mrs Kashelkar is from India and she and her husband, Peter, moved to Australia around three years ago.
The number of Australians directly owning shares fell to the lowest level in more than a decade as the global finance crisis has sapped investor confidence and crimped returns.
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