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Bombora signs first partner, signals more expansion

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2013
Independent licensee Bombora Advice has signed on risk protection specialist Complete Risk Analysis (CRA) as its first partner, with more firms expected to jump on board over the coming months. Bombora managing director Wayne Handley said that the addition ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2013
The Australian share market has opened higher as investors welcome solid Chinese economic data, the possibility of a diplomatic solution to the Syria chemical weapons issue and renewed business confidence in the wake of the Australian federal election. ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2013
The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street again made marked gains on strong Chinese economic data and greater confidence the US may not launch a strike on Syria. At 0753 AEST on Wednesday, the September share price index futures ...

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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2013
Australian shares have opened slightly firmer on the back of positive economic news out of the US, China and Japan. Resources stocks were posting the largest gains, with Tony Abbott's election victory and the coalition's pledge to repeal the mining ...

ASIC finds hedge funds pose no systemic risk

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2013
Australian hedge funds do not currently pose a systemic risk to the Australian financial system, a new ASIC report has found. The regulator also found that qualifying hedge funds in the survey also use low leverage and appear to have adequate liquidity ...

Appetite for overseas assets continues to grow

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2013
An increasing number of Australian investors are planning to make investments in overseas assets over the next three months, partly driven by a surprise lift in appetite for fixed income investments, according to the latest Certitude Global Investor ...

OMTs - one year on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2013
It's all about China.A It's not landing hard.A It's stabilising. That's what you'll read in most finance headlines this morning Virginia as the main pusher of positive sentiment in Asian equity markets yesterday and Wall Street overnight. Europe closed ...

Cash Converters to raise $60m through bond issue

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2013
Alternative credit provider and pawnbroker Cash Converters is the latest company to issue an unrated corporate bond through fixed income broker FIIG Securities. Cash Converters hopes to raise between $50 and $60 million through the unsecured bond issue. ...

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AAP  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2013
Australian shares have opened slightly firmer on the back of positive economic news out of the US, China and Japan. Resources stocks were posting the largest gains, with Tony Abbott's election victory and the coalition's pledge to repeal the mining ...

Australian pension fund growth outstrips global average

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2013
Australian pension fund growth was twice the global average in 2012, according to a global survey of the world's 300 largest funds conducted by US newspaper Pensions & Investments and Towers Watson. While total assets of the world's largest 300 pension ...