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T. Rowe Price opens Melbourne office

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2015
Baltimore-based investment manager T. Rowe Price has grown its Australian footprint, opening a new office in Melbourne and expanding its business development team. The company said the move enables closer working relationships with new and existing ...

Reasons to cheer amid gloomy predictions

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2015
... "Western Australia and Queensland will be heavily affected by the slow of the mining boom," while New South Wales and Victoria are expected to do better thanks to their large manufacture sectors and infrastructure investment. In NSW, infrastructure construction ...

Bennelong appoints new distribution director

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2015
Bennelong Funds Management (Bennelong) has appointed Holly Old as its new director distribution for Victoria/Tasmania. Having previously held positions at Franklin Templeton Investments, BlackRock Investment Management and Merrill Lynch Investment Management ...

One third of first home buyers are investors

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2015
... proportions of owner occupied home loans that are by FHBs vary significantly across the states. In NSW the proportion is 8%, in Victoria, Queensland and South Australia the proportions range from 10% to 12%, and in Western Australia the proportion is ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2015
... $6.04. Shares in Fairfax Media gained three cents to 90 cents after it announced it would buy the remaining 50 per cent of Victoria's Metro Media Publishing.

Investec property fund acquires $8.1m warehouse

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2015
The Investec Australia Property Fund (IAPF) has acquired a new property in Derrimut, Victoria for $8.1 million. The acquisition, effective from 22 December 2014, caps off a busy year for the fund which added properties to the total purchase price value ...

Philanthropic fund establishments return to pre-GFC levels

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 6 JAN 2015
... the following years. New South Wales recorded more new PAFs than ever and is now home to 42% of the total, followed by Victoria, Western Australia, Queensland and finally South Australia. Distributions from PAFs have grown to record levels reaching $251 ...

Court approves Great Southern settlement

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014
A $23.5 million settlement of a class action related to loans to investors hit by the billion dollar collapse of agribusiness Great Southern has won court approval. The agricultural projects manager, which raised $1.8 billion and managed 45 investment ...

ASIC accepts EU from Victorian adviser

HARRY PAGE  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2014
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has accepted an enforceable undertaking (EU) from former Professional Investment Services (PIS) representative Seamus O'Brien. O'Brien previously traded as Cambridge Financial Planning in South ...

Future Fund equities head to depart

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2014
The Future Fund's head of equities is to leave the organisation to be replaced by an internal staffer on a temporary basis. Elspeth Lumsden joined the Future Fund in 2007 and led the team responsible for building the Fund's listed equity portfolio.A ...