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Australians making more money from investing than working

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2015
Median Sydney house prices reaching $1 million combined with another strong year from super funds highlights how, for many Australians, their investments make more money than they do. Newspapers in Sydney this week featured stories about how the median ...

Activist shareholders agitate AMP China fund

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2015
Asian hedge fund manager LIM Advisors called for shareholder action to force AMP Capital to take steps to narrow the 26% discount on its China Growth Fund. LIM Advisors said it will call an extraordinary general meeting to take the matter to unitholders ...

Wilson to raise $550m for philanthropic LIC

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2015
Wilson Asset Management chairman Geoff Wilson wants to raise $550 million for a philanthropic listed fund, the largest float for a listed investment company (LIC) in Australia. The Future Generation Global Investment Company Limited (FGG) will have ...

New SIV rules target smaller companies boost

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2015
From July new Significant Investor Visa (SIV) applicants must invest a minimum of $5 million across three complying arrangements after new rules were formally announced by the federal government. To comply with an SIV, applicants will have to place ...

Next stop: US payrolls

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
To paraphrase Karen (Carpenter), "there's a kind of hush all over the world overnight". The violent upheaval in the bond and equity markets you, I and Irene witnessed over the past few days appeared to have eased. Perhaps, this is because the selling ...

Deflation is the Darth Vader of the economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2015
We're back to crude oil spotting again folks. Prices dropped big time again last night - WTI oil down 4.0% to US$44.36 a barrel and Brent's down 2.4% to US$48.43 per barrel. Not surprisingly, Wall Street, which had been trading flat for most of the ...

AIA appoints chief marketing officer

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2015
... marketing officer to lead a team of 41 people across a number of business areas. The life insurer has appointed former GE Capital A&NZ head of marketing and portfolio management Renae Smith to the role. Smith will start on February 11 and will be in ...

ME Bank appoints new CIO

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2014
ME Bank has appointed a new chief information officer from GE Capital Group. Mark Gay will commence in the role on 27 January 2015 following the departure of current CIO Kathryn Hawkins, who will finish in November 2014. The bank said the appointment ...

NAB AM buys stake in UK fund manager

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2014
NAB Asset Management has taken an approximate 40% stake in newly-founded London-based fund manager Intermede Investment Partners. Intermede is an active global equities manager with a focus on investing in listed mid and large capitalisation companies. ...

BetaShares launches new equity income fund

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2014
Exchange traded fund (ETF) provider BetaShares is targeting SMSF investors and retirees with the launch of a new yield-focused ETF. The BetaShares Australian Dividend Harvester Fund (managed fund), will trade under the ASX code "HVST". It seeks to maximise ...