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Future Fund investment team expands

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2008
The Federal Government's $59.6 billion Future Fund has beefed up its investment team after appointing five more senior executives. Nadine Lennie has been appointed to the role of Director, Private Markets and will work with Raphael Arndt to develop ...

MFS breaches $184m loan

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2008
MFS Premium Income Fund is engaging the Bank of Scotland in talks following a multi-million dollar loan facility breach. The fund's auditor, PricewaterhouseCoopers notes the fund has breached a loan facility of $184 million with third party bank, the ...

Sentiment sinks on floats

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 17 MAR 2008
Failing business confidence, courtesy of the US-led sub-prime credit crisis has diminished corporate appetite for listing on the main board of the ASX. According to Pricewaterhousecoopers (PwC) latest survey of sharemarket floats, the number of business ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2008
The Australian share market is expected to open lower today following a weak performance on Wall Street and continued negative commentary, particularly on higher borrowing costs for banks. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0745 AEDT, the March share ...

Bell Financial Group to buy Tricom

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2008
Bell Financial Group announced today that it has signed a heads of agreement to acquire 100 per cent of embattled futures broking firm, Tricom Group. "Should all conditions precedent be satisfied, Bell Financial Group would provide a capital infusion ...

Bullen heads MacarthurCook real estate

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2008
Melbourne-based boutique fund manager MacarthurCook Limited has appointed Russell Bullen to head the firm's real estate department. Bullen brings over 15 years of real estate experience in the US and Australia to MacarthurCook, including his expertise ...

Oil sours economic rally

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2008
A recently released PricewaterhouseCoopers survey reveals that senior executives have replaced terrorism with risk of energy supply as a primary concern in 2008. Leading oil-importing economies that share these concerns meet today in the Swiss resort ...

Szondy joins Frontier

Gabriel Szondy has been appointed as a director to the board of Frontier Investment Consulting (Frontier). Szondy joins the board as the representative of one of Frontier's shareholders, AustralianSuper. His current positions include director at Care ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2007
The Australian share market is receiving mixed leads this morning, with positive guidance from Wall Street and base metals, but Sydney Futures slightly down. At 0707 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December share price index was DOWN 7 points ...

ASIC to sue Westpoint

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) is to take legal action against Westpoint, and planner groups that recommended Westpoint products, on behalf of investors who lost a combined $320 million when the property group collapsed ...