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UniSuper still fighting Westfield change

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... investors demanded lower debt levels. This would be a good outcome for WRT given that it has first right of refusal to purchase the properties. Furthermore, one could not assume that NewCo would always trade at a premium while WRT would trade at a discount. ...

EQT receives approval for ANZ Trustees acquisition

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... Cormann has provided the approval, the company told the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). "As such, the sale and purchase agreement with ANZ is now unconditional," EQT said. EQT added that the relevant employees at ANZ Trustees have already signed ...

FEATURE: Bulldozing the infrastructure roadblocks

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... factoring in is the loss of dividends over time. And that loss of dividend is not necessarily always compensated by the purchase price paid, because governments have a lower discount rate. So that 15% sweetener I suspect makes all the difference." For ...

Everything but the kitchen sink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... redemptions -- to household and non-financial corporations. "Targetted" because it excludes "loans to households for house purchase". More give. Suspension of bond market sterilisation. "In addition, we decided to suspend the weekly fine-tuning operation ...

Crime survey finds fraud rife in Australia

PETRINA BERRY, AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2014
... says. Procurement fraudsters can be an employee, business owner, board member, an official or vendor involved in the purchase or sale of services, goods or assets between organisations or individuals. "We see this type of fraud in contracting, inappropriate ...

Waiting for the ECB to exhale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
Push has now come to shove. Yes Virginia, freshly-released data on the state of inflation and unemployment may have just done it - that is, remove whatever doubts linger that Super Mario's coming back to save the eurozone. The European Central Bank ...

AIA Australia re-enters direct insurance market

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2014
... of buying it through their advisers. "We recognise that many customers understand their insurance needs but prefer to purchase it directly from a brand that they know already," AIA Australia general manager of life insurance Damien Mu said. "The partnership ...

Fresh Orient Capital acquisitions expand European operations

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2014
... European business has been acquired from AST, who simultaneously announced today it has entered into an agreement to purchase the entire operating businesses of D.F. King. AST joined forces with Link Group in 2008 to form a global share registry offering. ...

Former finance broker convicted for fraud

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2014
... Shiraz, of Canterbury, New South Wales, admitted to using the identities of former clients to defraud a finance company to purchase two cars, sell them to friends and keep the cash from the sale. The fraud happened in July and August 2012 when Shiraz ...

The name is bonds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2014
The Memorial Day holiday in the US must have put Wall Streeters in a good mood - they came back a-shopping and sent the S&P 500 index up to a fresh record high. As the Bellamy Brothers sang, "There's a reason for the sunshine sky there's a reason why ...