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App lets Australians invest pocket change

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2016
A new app released in Australia will allow users to round up daily purchases and invest the "change" into a diversified exchange-traded fund portfolio. Acorns, created by father-son business Acorns Grow in 2012, was released in the US in 2014 and has ...

Investec buys stake in equity crowdfunding fintech

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2016
Investec has purchased a 20% stake in Equitise, an equity crowdfunding business. Created in 2014, Equitise has been a forerunner in the Australian equities crowdfunding sector, working alongside regulatory shifts to accommodate this new form of investment. ...

Those who want a job can get a job

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2016
... will likely warrant maintaining "the current range for the federal funds rate for a considerable time after the asset purchase program ends, especially if projected inflation continues to run below the Committee's 2 percent longer-run goal, and provided ...

QIC purchases New York shopping centre

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 FEB 2016
Giant Australian investment manager QIC has signaled further acquisitions in the US following its joint-venture purchase of Westchester's Ridge Hill retail shopping centre in New York. QIC announced the purchase of a 51% stake in the shopping centre ...

Australia carbon reporting quality on the rise

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2016
The quality of carbon reporting by Australian companies is higher on average than those in Europe, the Americas and relative to Asia-Pacific neighbours, according to KPMG research. The KPMG Corporate Responsibility Reporting Survey 2015 identified the ...

BOJ goes negative to get postive

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2016
A week and a day after equity markets welcomed Super Mario Draghi's announcement that the European Central Bank (ECB) would "review and possibly reconsider our monetary policy stance at our next meeting in early March in order to secure a return of ...

Aviva commences proceedings against Centrepoint

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2016
... writ of summons and statement of claim, Centrepoint's former Singaporean subsidiary, Fifth Floor, breached a 2012 share purchase agreement warranty. The warranty pertains to the sale (by Fifth Floor) of Centrepoint's other former subsidiary, Professional ...

Legg Mason makes three acquisitions

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2016
... being owned by Gregg S. Hymowitz, EnTrust's co-founder and managing partner. The Precidian Investments saw Legg Mason purchase a new class of preferred equity, entitling the firm to the rights of a holder of 19.9% of common equity, with the option to ...

AustralianSuper makes major play for King's Cross

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2016
... The sale is part of wider plans to help reduce the UK's budget deficit. Australia's largest super fund also decided to purchase an additional 6% stake from Deutsche Post's DHL parcel service, meaning an overall investment of about $900 million. AustralianSuper ...

Margin lenders tighten policies after ASIC review

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2016
... Double geared margin loans are where a consumer borrows money (using another asset as security, such as their home) to purchase shares, and then gets a margin loan on those shares to buy more shares. Following ASIC's review, one margin lender has pulled ...