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Australian Super backtracked on airport valuation: Future Fund

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2014

Russell Investments set for London Stock Exchange sale

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2014
... Investments looks set to be sold to the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) after the UK group agreed a US$2.7 billion purchase price with parent company Northwestern Mutual. The deal will bring together US$5.2 trillion of assets benchmarked to Russell ...

US bond yields zipped by ZIRP?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2014
... Federal Open Markets Committee (FOMC) meeting starting in January this year. Successive tapering have reduced the Fed's purchase of US Treasuries from US$45 billion at the end of last year to less than half that this month. At the conclusion of its 17-18 ...

Good or bad, it's all good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2014
I had pancakes for breakfast. So was everyone else tuned in to overnight trading activity on Wall Street. The S&P 500 index closed flat -- ok, ok... an itsy-bitsy-teenie-weenie minus 0.01% if one must be pedantic about it -- after declining by as much ...

$US5b irregularities at China fund, banks

AFP  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
... $US575 billion at the end of 2012. One of its subsidiaries sold stakes in a securities firm in 2011 at their original purchase price, losing 1.26 billion yuan ($A215 million) on their market value at the time, the NAO said in the statement. Another CIC ...

Steady as she goes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2014
... Remember that time? The time when she spooked financial markets when she declared that "considerable time" after the purchase programme ends means "... you know, this is the kind of term it's hard to define, but, you know, it probably means something ...

UK on the go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2014
... those "many economists" were wrong! Carney maintained the status quo on BOE policy - the Bank Rate at 0.5% and the asset purchase programme ceiling at A£375 billion. The only change Carney made was to delete the 7.0% unemployment rate threshold (at ...

Chamber Orchestra adds violin to Instrument Fund

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2014
The Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO) has added a rare and valuable Guarneri violin to its Instrument Fund. The violin was made by Joseph Guarneri filius Andreae in 1714 and is one of the renowned luthier's 250 instruments that survive today. The ACO ...

UBS launches farmland investment service

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2014
... food to key export markets, in particular Asia, with growing demand for such products and increasing consumer ability to purchase," UBS Global Asset Management's head of global real estate for APAC Trevor Cooke said. "Our farmland investment capability ...

The kindness of central banks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2014
S&P 500 2000 here we come! It won't be long now. Yes Virginia, with the S&P 500 index less than 50 points away (or 2.5%) from the 2,000-point milestone it'll just a few more sleeps and it'll be there - my back of the envelope calculation show that the ...