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Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2015
The share market remains lower due to weak leads from the US and Europe and sliding commodity prices. The market opened around half a per cent lower and remained at a similar level at noon, following a fall of almost one per cent on Wall Street on Friday ...

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 ...

Philanthropic fund establishments return to pre-GFC levels

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 6 JAN 2015
The number of private ancillary funds (PAFs) established in 2014 reached the highest level since the start of the global financial crisis in 2008. As many as 150 PAFs were established in Australia during 2014, compared to around 80 the year before ...

Court approves Great Southern settlement

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014
A $23.5 million settlement of a class action related to loans to investors hit by the billion dollar collapse of agribusiness Great Southern has won court approval. The agricultural projects manager, which raised $1.8 billion and managed 45 investment ...

ASIC accepts EU from Victorian adviser

HARRY PAGE  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2014
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has accepted an enforceable undertaking (EU) from former Professional Investment Services (PIS) representative Seamus O'Brien. O'Brien previously traded as Cambridge Financial Planning in South ...

Future Fund equities head to depart

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2014
The Future Fund's head of equities is to leave the organisation to be replaced by an internal staffer on a temporary basis. Elspeth Lumsden joined the Future Fund in 2007 and led the team responsible for building the Fund's listed equity portfolio.A ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2014
The Australian share market has opened higher. At 1010 AEDT on Thursday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 25.1 points, or 0.47 per cent, at 5,346.9, while the broader All Ordinaries index was up 24.1 points, or 0.45 per cent, at 5,325.3. On the ...

NAB launches Australia's first certified climate bond

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2014
National Australia Bank plans to raise at least $150 million for renewable energy facilities with the launch of a so-called 'green bond.' The NAB Climate Bond is also the first bank-issued bond to be certified in compliance with international Climate ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher after Wall Street made moderate gains as energy and commodity shares rallied while data boosted confidence in the economy. At 0844 AEST on Thursday, the December share price index futures contract was up ...

ATO exec leaves to join consulting firm

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2014
The Australian Tax Office (ATO) assistant deputy commissioner for superannuation has left the regulator to join Brisbane-based consultancy firm McPherson Super Consulting. Stuart Forsyth was involved in drafting the ATO ruling on limited recourse borrowing ...