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Mac Media broaden debt with Taiwanese broadband buy

Macquarie Media Group (MMG) has been bankrolled by Macquarie Bank to snap up its first acquisition offshore, Taiwan Broadband Communications (TBC). The deal brought together Macquarie Bank and MMG in a joint venture which outlaid $1.9 billion for 100 ...

Martin Currie plans for Japan Alpha

Edinburgh-based fund manager Martin Currie is hoping to attract enough local investor interest to launch a Japan Alpha fund, modeled after its long-running and award-winning fund from the UK. In Australia this month is Michael Thomas, Martin Currie's ...

IFSA get set to push product rationalisation

Product rationalisation is high on the agenda for IFSA next year, with estimates that if the reforms it suggests are successful it will save the industry between $120 million and $350 million a year in compliance costs. IFSA's December 2005 report outlines ...

Daily Economic Update

Today's report of a fall in inflation expectations give credence to the Financial Standard Intelligence Unit's view that interest rates are on hold in the near term. The Melbourne Institute reported that Australian consumer expectations dipped to 4.6 ...

Overseas investing to reach 40 per cent: ING

The trend towards investing globally will only strengthen further with ING predicting that the amount invested overseas by superannuation and investment funds will increase from around 25 per cent to as much as 40 per cent by 2010. ING's CEO Grant Bailey ...

Daily Economic Update

Australian consumer confidence fell by 2.7 per cent to 104.7 in November from 107.6 in the previous month. According to Westpac, concern over higher interest rates and the fall in house prices were chiefly responsible for the drop in consumer confidence. ...

Local Super appoints CEO

SA-based fund Local Super has appointed a former Mercer HR principal as its new CEO. Nic Szuster took on the newly created role which will involve over-seeing the ongoing product and services development, business expansion and increasing the fund's ...

Market wrap

The Australian share market is expected to open firmer as a strong rally in US markets following the decision by the US Federal Reserve to raise interest rates for the 13th consecutive time. Stronger base metals are also expected to support the local ...

Daily Economic Update

Japan's current account surplus increased by 2.6 per cent to 1.38 trillion yen (US$11.4 billion) in the year to October. Higher overseas investment income and increased demand for the country's exports of autos and steel contributed to the wider surplus. ...

Machiavellian Macville gets prison term

A former financial planner and adviser from Queensland was sentenced to four and a half years imprisonment after being found guilty of six fraud charges. Robert Pierre Macville funnelled client funds of around $470,000 into his own private company Macville ...