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Fixed it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2014
... interest rates on fixed mortgages to a record lows. ANZ and the others are sure to follow. As per the Australian Financial Review : "Commonwealth moved first, slashing its five-year loan to 4.99 per cent: a new low for the bank. Within hours NAB and ...

BetaShares appoints AFR columnist as chief economist

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2014
... and interest rate strategist at Bankers Trust and Macquarie Bank, later becoming a columnist at the Australian Financial Review. He began his career at the Commonwealth Bank before taking a role as a research economist at the Organisation for Economic ...

Macquarie rebukes advice, compliance concerns

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2014
... added that it is in "regular discussion with ASIC." The response was prompted by an article in the Australian Financial Review quoting several members of the Committee that conducted the inquiry. The senators claimed that Macquarie had refused to respond ...

Superpartners suspends platform development

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2014
... Superpartners has suspended development of a major IT project four years after it was due to be completed. The Australian Financial Review today reported that the aborted project exceeded its budget by $180 million. Superpartners did not respond to a ...

Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Oi, Oi, Oi

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2014
... too long ago that we were reading about down, down, A$ will go down predictions. We read it in the Australian Financial Review (AFR) on 24 Feb - yes less than four months ago - "$A dollar to hit US66Ac: Deutsche Bank" - and the Sydney Morning Herald ...

Crowe Horwath to announce buyout proposal

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2014
... non-binding indicative buyout proposal from private equity firm Anchorage Capital Partners. According to the Australian Financial Review, Findex, which recently acquired Centric Wealth, would also be interested on buying the financial planning and accounting ...

Macquarie exec posed as family office to learn secrets

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2014
... family office to gather confidential financial information from a competitor. An investigation by the Australian Financial Review found that head of Macquarie Agricultural Funds Management Tim Hornibrook extracted sensitive details about a competitor's ...

Front-runners

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2014
In big picture terms, not much happened last week. Yes Virginia, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) kept policy unchanged - as expected. The European Central Bank (ECB) guided forward but also stayed on the sidelines. US non-farm payrolls added another ...

Industry heralds government capital recycling plan

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2014
... welcomed the move enthusiastically. AustralianSuper head of infrastructure Jason Peasely told the Australian Financial Review that it represents the greatest alignment between states, governments and public that he'd seen in 20 years of investing.

Smaller funds don't need to merge: legalsuper CEO

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014
... under management will be forced to merge. His comments came in response to an article published in the Australian Financial Review on Monday claiming that funds of that size will struggle to remain competitive on their own. "Many small to medium-sized ...