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Housing market set to flat line not crash: QIC

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2016
The Australian housing market is heading towards a price plateau, not a sharp crash according to Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC). This view helps to dampen new research from Finder which found that 89.3% of Australian housing debt was at an ...

Pengana absolute return fund shifts to daily pricing

WHITNEY FITZSIMMONS  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2016
Australian funds management group, Pengana has announced that its Pengana Absolute Return Asia Pacific Fund (PARAPF) has moved to daily pricing. The move brings the fund's pricing, and processing of applications and redemptions in line with the rest ...

Shaw and Partners appoints senior adviser

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2016
Shaw and Partners has appointed a new private client adviser. Hatem Matar joins Shaw and Partners from Morgan Stanley, where he was a senior derivatives adviser. Prior to that, he held roles at Ord Minnett, St George and Leveraged Equities. Commenting ...

NAB appoints MD for innovation

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2016
NAB has appointed the managing director of its $50 million innovation fund, NAB Ventures. Todd Forest was previously chief executive of Clipp, a mobile payments app which allows users to pay a restaurant bill or bar tab with their phone (instead of ...

Crowe Horwath makes two senior appointments

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2016
Crowe Horwath has appointed David Ward and Trevor Pascall as corporate finance and tax advisory principals respectively. Ward joins Crowe Horwath from Credo Advisory Partners, an independent boutique corporate advisory firm specialising in the provision ...

Indigenous workers retire with 27pct less: research

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2016
Indigenous males are likely to retire with a superannuation balance matching non-indigenous females who have no career break according to new industry research. This finding comes from the latest paper examining retirement adequacy for indigenous Australians ...

Alternative mandates eclipse equities

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2016
For the first time since 2009, alternative assets have eclipsed equities for the largest asset class share among institutional investment mandates in Australia. That pivotal moment occurred during the final quarter of 2015, and it reflects a trend seen ...

Infrastructure pricing reshaping investment landscape

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2016
JANA senior consultant Susan Orr recently told the Conference of Major Superannuation Funds (CMSF) that there is plenty of dry powder among investment managers looking to invest in infrastructure. Yet one of the pitfalls in this environment is the impact ...

New Macquarie chair steps up

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2016
Macquarie's new chair has succeeded Kevin McCann. Peter Warne, whose appointment was announced in September, was previously a non-executive director and also chair of Macquarie's Board Remuneration Committee, a position he will retain until May 7. He ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2016
Australia private sector credit The A$ has weakened slightly after climbing to a nine-month high of US$0.7723 overnight. But at the latest exchange of US$0.7667, it remains 5.0% higher than its level at the start of 2016 and 11.7% up from this year's ...