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Housing market set to flat line not crash: QIC

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2016
The Australian housing market is heading towards a price plateau, not a sharp crash according to Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC). This view helps to dampen new research from Finder which found that 89.3% of Australian housing debt was at an ...

Australian Catholic Superannuation nabs Sunsuper CIO

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2016
... Catholic Superannuation has appointed a new director to its board. David Hartley joins the $7 billion fund from a 10-year stretch as Sunsuper's chief investment officer. Prior to that, he was director, investment consulting at Russell. He has also held ...

Martin Currie completes PK Investment Management deal

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JAN 2016
Active equity manager Martin Currie has now received the necessary approvals to complete its acquisition of the assets and investment management team of London-based long/short Japanese equity boutique, PK Investment Management. Once the deal is completed ...

Treasurer calls for planners to enter China

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2015
... Australia's sophisticated system. Morrison made the comment at a Bloomberg event in Sydney this morning and said the advantages stretch further than financial services. "I'm advised for every dollar we spend buying Chinese goods and services as Australians ...

Not this year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2015
... goods orders were down 7.3% over the same period. With US factories reducing their orders for durable goods, it's not stretch to imagine that they are also not thinking about adding to staffing levels. But we don't need our imaginations for this, the ...

Big trouble in big China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2015
Here we go again folks, the China is kaput story is back in the headlines again. What went up last week - some through to yesterday - are back down again all because, they say, financial markets didn't like what they saw in the China's trade data where ...

Plastics manufacturer launches $40m bond issue

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2015
... business in Australia and New Zealand, focused on industrial and agricultural packaging. It specialises in shrink film, stretch film, pallet wrap film and agricultural film products. It also distributes a full range of pallet wrapping machines and associated ...

Lift Janet lift

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2015
We're now heading into the home stretch people - the weekend before the week the Fed meets and decides. The FOMC has a full week from today to make up its mind and us, lesser mortals, the same time to speculate and rumour-monger about what on Janet ...

Pengana and PanAgora strike new deal

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
Global quantitative manager PanAgora Asset Management will bring its institutional funds management capabilities to the Australian retail market through an agreement struck with Pengana Capital. The deal expands Pengana's investment solutions with a ...

It's not the when but the what happens after

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2015
... pattern of rising to the brink and then failing to break through, leaving investors without a fresh high for the longest stretch since 2013". And it came complete with charted stats that showed "the percentage of trading days in which the S&P 500 climbed ...