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Chief economist update: Turkey's roasted

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2018
... crisis in Turkey were it not for the problem of contagion. News reports reveal that some banks in France, Italy and Spain have debt exposure to Turkey. The deeper the Turkish lira dives, the less it's able to repay these debts. Ben Ong is the Director ...

Property fund makes $143m bid to internalise management

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2018
... APG. The proposed purchase price of $143m is a 9.3 multiple of the FY19 EBIT. It will be funded through cash from existing debt facilities and June issue of stapled securities. Following the implementation, the fund's total portfolio will be worth ...

ESG bond portfolio opens to Aussie investors

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2018
... securities from issuers that the specialist manager believes are managing ESG exposures better than their peers. The underlying debt securities will have an overlay of rates, currency, inflation and credit market positions. It will aim to outperform ...

Chief economist update: Do nothing RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2018
... could re-ignite the already slowing housing market and encourage Australian households to raise their already record high debt levels? Sometimes the best move is to do nothing. Or to paraphrase Ronan Keating's song, you do it best when you do nothing ...

Financial abuse: A hidden epidemic

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2018
... will experience financial abuse in their lifetime, ranging from controlling or restricting access to money to running up debt in a victim's name. In June, the Australian Banking Association, National Seniors, Council on the Ageing, Older Persons Action ...

Chief economist update: Not before we get a pay rise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2018
Just in time for tomorrow's Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) monthly board meeting, ME Bank published the results of the 14th survey of its "Household Financial Comfort Report", taken last June. "The ME Household Financial Comfort Report provides ...

Global pension fund injects $500m into Aussie real estate debt

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2018
A Canadian pension fund managing more than C$350 billion made its first Australian real estate debt investment with a $19 billion local asset manager. CPPIB Credit Investments - a subsidiary of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board - injected $500 ...

Impact investing reports sharp growth

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2018
... growth in impact investments. RIAA chief executive Simon O'Connor said most impact investments are made through private debt. "By number, the majority of impact investments are in private debt, much of which is made up of loans to social enterprises. ...

Commercial property manager hires sales executive

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2018
Australian commercial real estate debt and investment manager MaxCap Group has appointed a distribution director based in Singapore. Chris van Beek joins from UBS Asset Management where he was executive director of real estate and private markets for ...

Chief economist update: Australian dollar loss is economy's gain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2018
... rate hike. But I guess this is the lesser of two evils. A rate reduction would re-ignite the fire of already high household debt levels - the latest stats from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) show that household debt to disposable income increased ...