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Five minutes of commodity sunshine?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
... repayment to the ECB is due. China happy, Europe happy, Wall Street happy - the S&P 500 up 1.3% -- happier still courtesy of Warren. Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway is reportedly buying Precision Castparts' scripts - reviving market focus on M&A deals. Gotta ...

Most members actively choose MySuper: research

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2015
... surveyed as part of a broader research project in to MySuper default funds, led by CIFR research director Doctor Geoff Warren. "Around two-thirds of the members surveyed made some kind of choice: either choosing their fund provider, or their investment ...

FEATURE: Alternatives - Taking the plunge

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
... assets will increase to US$15.3 trillion ($20.4 trillion) by the end of the decade. At the same time, investment magnate Warren Buffett has warned that institutions increasing allocations to alternatives is a "fool's game" due to high headline fees and ...

Glass-Steagall Act reintroduced to US Senate

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2015
... re-introduced into the US Senate. The legislation has been sponsored by GOP, Democrat and Independent Senators Elizabeth Warren, John McCain, Maria Cantwell and Angus King. A statement issued by the fiercely pro-consumer and Wall Street protagonist Senator ...

SMSFs to access Berkshire Hathaway from Australia

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2015
Self-managed super funds (SMSFs) will be able to access Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway from Australia. MDS Financial-owned Sequoia Specialist Investments has launched a number of structured products that provide exposure to the performance of Berkshire ...

Insync with beer

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
... dividends have been quite substantial. "The management team at AB Inbev are a lot of the same people who are now working with Warren Buffett," Kotecha said. "They deliver uprating margins in whatever they're doing and it's always above the industry average. ...

Shares stronger at noon

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2015
... Financial stocks were giving the market a boost, with Insurance Australia Group leaping up on the news that billionaire Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway is buying a $500 million stake in it. IAG was up 20 cents, or 3.6 per cent, to $5.77, and Suncorp ...

Buffett insurer partners with IAG

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2015
Warren Buffett-chaired Berkshire Hathaway has entered a strategic partnership with Insurance Australia Group (IAG). The partnership consists of a ten-year 20% quota share agreement, with Berkshire acquiring roughly 90 million IAG shares (for a total ...

Franking credits matter, academics say

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2015
... Sydney senior lecturer Andrew Ainsworth, chair of finance discipline Graham Partington and CIFR research director Geoff Warren authored the research, which argued that "focusing on how imputation influences behaviour is arguably more important than its ...

NAS loses VFMC, retains VicSuper

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2015
... partner well with us to deliver high quality middle and back office solutions to service our clients," VFMC chief executive Warren Lee said. Outgoing custodian NAB Asset Servicing (NAS) has confirmed it has renewed its custody mandate with $15 billion ...