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Platinum backs US internet stocks and Asian infrastructure

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2015
Star manager Kerr Neilson's listed investment company Platinum Capital is backing out-of-favour big-name US technology companies as well as infrastructure plays in China and India. In a quarterly update to shareholders the billionaire investor said ...

Google insurance coming soon

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2015
Speculation is growing that Google will directly enter the insurance market. While its interest seems limited to automative insurance the impact of its disruptive approach is expected to impact other insurance classes. Google's interest in car insurance ...

Nearly there?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2015
The price of crude continues to dance the limbo (how low can you go?) After a strong start, Wall Street buckled after lunch as the price of WTI dropped to a low of US$44.20 a barrel and Brent touched US$45.19. The S&P 500 index gained as much as 1.4% ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2015
The Australian sharemarket has opened lower following another slide in oil prices overnight. The market is around 0.7% lower. That follows a fall of more than 0.5% on Wall Street's Dow Jones Industrial Average and a 0.8% decline in its S&P 500 overnight. ...

Oil price shock, nice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2015
I thought that in my lifetime I would never see someone out there in this galaxy wishin' and hopin' and prayin' higher oil prices to be. (Apart from those extracting, producing, investing in and lending to oil companies and nations, that is). And oh ...

WAM Capital announces $100m share purchase plan

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2015
Listed investment company WAM Capital has announced a $100 million share purchase plan (SPP). The SPP will be offered to existing shareholders at the fixed price of $1.90 per share. Shareholders who participate in the offer will be entitled to the 7.0 ...

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 ...

Advisers looking overseas for growth

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2015
Advisers' confidence in the Australian share market to deliver high returns in 2014 has dwindled compared to the same time last year and many are considering growth opportunities in international markets, according to a recent Investment Trends survey. ...

Auld lang syne

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2015
"Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind?" - Robert Burns Happy 2015 to all you gentlereaders. We're back in space - cyberspace that is - and, it seems, so are the economic and financial market uncertainties that littered the dying ...

Standard Life Inv launches global equity strategy

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 9 JAN 2015
Standard Life Investments has launched a Global Equity Unconstrained strategy. The fund is available to international investors, including Australian clients, through a SICAV structure. The SICAV fund (which is an acronym for sociA(C)tA(C) d'investissement ...