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Provident Capital reaffirms solvency

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2012
Provident Capital has reassured investors the company is solvent and that there are sufficient net tangible assets to meet its obligations following last week's action in the Federal Court by the trustee for mortgage debenture holders. On June 13 Australian ...

Pop goes the QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012
Party pooper. Spoilsport. Booo! One can almost taste - yes, taste - the financial markets' disappointment when dear Uncle Ben came and spoke with not even a hint that those beloved letters Q and E are in the offing. Not even a wink, wink, nudge, nudge. ...

Shareholder backlash hits Macquarie MGU

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2012
Western Investment LLC, a large shareholder in Macquarie Global Infrastructure Total Return Fund, has publicly criticised the fund's board of directors, claiming they are failing to act in shareholders' best interests. Western Investment (Western) is ...

Advice frameworks need an overhaul

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012
... returns in the past five years. "We're seeing the backlash against that now," Matterson said. "So, you eventually start saying, let's look instead at the objectives people fundamentally have and then work backwards from there." "Saying there's a 50% ...

Down and out in May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012
... level, while bullish sentiment remained at below-average levels," we're close, if not standing right over it this very moment. Let's leave the closing remarks to Mr. Buffett. Take it away Warren. "The most common cause of low prices is pessimism - sometimes ...

Not that rainy day feeling again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2012
... takes the year-on-year growth rate - yes, growth and not improvement in second derivatives - up to 14.7% from 10.5% in March. Let's hear it again folks. What the? The point is that the near-term direction of the financial markets remains uncertain and ...

NAB winds up private equity arm

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2012
National Australia Bank is closing its Integrated Capital Solutions private equity investment division. "NAB is discontinuing making further investments via Integrated Capital Solutions and is letting the existing portfolio of Investments run their ...

VIX says nearly shopping time

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2012
Armageddon. Catastrophe. Lehman Bros moment. GFC mark II. Game over. Funny but... haven't I heard all this before? Let me think. Yeah right. That's it. "Twas about four years ago when Lehman bit the dust. Remember how you - and your neighbours -- felt ...

AustralianSuper wins landmark IBM mandate

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2012
AustralianSuper has won Australia's largest corporate super outsourcing mandate to manage the $1.7bn IBM staff fund. Subject to due diligence, current IBM Super members and employees will transfer to AustralianSuper effective 1 November 2012. The tender ...

The end is not nigh

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2012
... same time avoid the pitfalls that disintegrated its predecessor, the Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) - that they're not gonna let this one go. This is because the cost of a break-up would be more than the price of glue to keep it together. By hook, by ...