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La Trobe mortgage fund gets "Strong" rating

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014
... discussions with a number of asset consultants regarding its product offering. Australia Ratings is the only credit rating agency in Australia which holds a retail Australian Financial Services Licence (AFSL) issued by the Australian Securities & Investments ...

New EM bond rater proposes fresh approach

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 FEB 2014
... markets, is proposing a new approach to its bond risk categorisations. ARC Ratings, formed in 2008, is a joint venture ratings agency network between smaller firms that include MARC from Malaysia, the CPR ratings agency from Portugal, SR from Brazil ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 NOV 2013
... Canadian pension fund proposed a buy-out. Engineering group Leighton Holdings lost 17 cents to $16.68 after work safety agency Comcar announced it would launch a Federal Court case against subsidiary John Holland over the death of a worker on Brisbane's ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2013
... area hit a record 12.2 per cent in September, with about 19.5 million people classed as jobless by European Union data agency Eurostat. In economic news on Friday, Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will release the index of commodity prices for month just ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 OCT 2013
... avoid a disastrous default just hours ahead of a deadline. Sentiment was rattled early in Wednesday's session as ratings agency Fitch placed the US on warning for a downgrade from its top-level AAA assessment. But at close in Europe, Frankfurt's DAX ...

Elders to axe 10% of workforce

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2013
... Elders has also wound-down its forestry assets and has agreed to reduce from 25% to 10% its equity holding in underwriting agency Elders Insurance. Elders Limited managing director Malcolm Jackman said that "the pillars of the overall business restructuring ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2013
... at 50.5 cents. It was better news for Flight Centre, with stronger sales and improved margins helping the travel agency group 2012/13 profit grow to $246 million, up from $200 million the previous year. Despite nearly tripling its net profit following ...

Super funds should use soft power, not quotas to fix gender equality

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2013
... providers. Helen Conway, director of the private sector employer equality industrial regulator, the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA), said superannuation was an influential industry because of its role in the economy, the financial system and ...

Bank levy upsets senior lobby

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 2 AUG 2013
... the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), and would possibly be safeguarded by the Future Fund Management Agency adding about 0.7% to its funds under management.

Former Macquarie exec to head up EFIC

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2013
The Export Finance and Insurance Corporation (EFIC), the Australian Government's export credit agency, has a new managing director and chief executive, Andrew Hunter. Until last year Hunter was co-head of Macquarie's Financial Institutions Group in ...