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Macquarie launches forestry product to retail investors

Macquarie Alternative Assets Management has launched a forestry product to the retail market in which investors can take part in a tree growing business and/or own the land on which the trees are planted, it has announced. The Macquarie Forestry Investment ...

QSuper scraps Balanced with Reserves investment option

The $8.5 billion Queensland Superannuation Fund (QSuper) has announced that it will scrap its Balanced with Reserves investment option to its 501,371 members in light of the poor returns in equities that has caused a massive dent to its reserve base ...

Takeovers Panel defers decision on Centro bid for ART

The Takeovers Panel has decided to defer a decision on Centro's bid for the AMP Shopping Centre Trust (ART) to allow AMP Life to make submissions to the proceedings. AMP Life has previously refused the Takeover Panel's invitation to take part, but changed ...

AMP shares put on halt until May 5: ASX

AMP shares have been placed in trading halt pending an announcement by the company, the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) announced this morning. "The reason for the trading halt is that AMP will today be announcing a capital raising involving a placement ...

AMP Henderson prepares the ground for Stanbroke sale

AMP Henderson Global Investors is due to complete the first stage in its tender process to sell Stanbroke Pastoral Company by late May after "significant" declarations of interest in the company, it has announced. Stanbroke is the largest single landholder ...

ICI announces $161 billion in combined US ETF assets for March

US investment industry association, Investment Company Institute (ICI) has announced a March US$100.83 billion (A$161 billion) asset total for US exchange-traded funds (ETFs), an overall increase of US$8 billion. Equity index ETF assets increased by ...

Morningstar gives three-stars to HSBC small caps

Morningstar has given a three-star rating to HSBC Asset Management's small caps management, citing "a lack of dedicated small cap personnel" as its "primary weakness". "While the fund manager leverages the resources of its large cap teams in terms of ...

Former AMP superannuation agent to stand trial

Harold Moses, a former AMP superannuation agent, has been committed to stand trial in the Sydney District Court on six charges of cheating and fraud laid by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) under the New South Wales Crimes ...

US corporate bonds to continue good start to the year: Loomis Sayles

Current economic conditions are favouring the corporate bond market instead of the US Treasuries, and global government bonds are likely to perform better than their US counterparts, according to US fixed interest specialists Loomis Sayles. "We believe ...

Qantas to lodge submission on Air New Zealand alliance

Qantas today announced that it would lodge a written submission in response to the draft determination of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) on its proposed alliance with Air New Zealand. Qantas will lodge the submission on May  ...