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International private equity struggles to raise real estate funds

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2011
Global private equity firms have faced challenges raising funds for international real estate with managers launching fewer funds and targeting less capital, according to a new report. In April 2011 there were 26 real estate funds of funds in the market ...

Financial Planners want level playing field on commissions

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2011
... Financial Advice (FOFA) reforms that could see them unable to collect some types of stamping and underwriting fees. Companies raising capital by floating on the stock exchange often pay fees to broking firms to promote their new shares to clients based ...

Two new appointments as Equiti fund closes in on first US property

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011
... Parker, formerly strategy advisor for Suncorp, in the funds management side of the business. Parker will be responsible for raising capital for the newly launched Equiti Capital US Multi-Family Property Fund. The fund, launched in March, seeks to take ...

Bendigo finds safe harbour from wholesale storm in retail deposits

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011
The threat of Greek turmoil raising Australian bank funding costs has lifted the prospects of a growing Big Four competitor. Ratings Agency Standard and Poor's raised Bendigo and Adelaide Bank's credit rating from stable to positive, with a possibility ...

Super fund leaps into life stage insurance

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2011
... fund REST superannuation became one of the first to pursue an active strategy to change its members' insurance coverage, raising the number of members insured by 50 per cent to 935,000 from 620,000 since starting its drive three years ago.

The sound of QE3

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2011
... emphasize 'at least'." OK, maybe not as soon as August, but "at least two or three meetings away." Surely, he didn't mean raising interest rates. Au contraire. "Further action," to me, equals QE3 - in some form or another. For there's no way he's hinting ...

All clear for a bail

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2011
... will be rewarded with a handshake and a suitcase containing a,-12 billion. News flash: "Papandreou Wins Confidence Vote, Raising Rescue Chances" (Bloomberg). Thank goodness I decided to look at my monitor before continuing to rattle on about what could ...

PIF Action Group lands Federal Court win

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2011
... director of Wellington Capital, that benefited their case as she was unable to justify the need for another urgent capital raising as she could not say whether any of the projects that Wellington claimed the capital raising would fund were ready for ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2011
... crisis... which could see the break up of the EU." At the same time the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) was talking about raising interest rates, he said. "We are seeing the slow erosion of value each week." The financial sector was weaker. Among the ...

PIF Investor action group claim small victory

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2011
... Group (PIFAG). PIFAG is seeking an injunction to cancel units in the Premium Income Fund (PIF) issued via a recent capital raising. The group also want to reverse changes to the constitution and restrain Wellington from issuing units pursuant to a rights ...