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CalPERS buys Macquarie property

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2009
One of the US' largest pension funds, CalPERS, has forked out $550 million for a 60 per cent slice of a Macquarie CountryWide Trust's portfolio of shopping centers. The $224 billion California Public Employees' Retirement System closed the half a billion ...

Black or white - just beat it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2009
... By It's Black, It's White, Whoo" No this is not another tribute to the King of Pop...and certainly not another Michael Jackson joke. This is about Wall Street doing a moonwalk to the latest update of Americans' personal income, spending and savings. ...

Too much ado about pig flu

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2009
... commentaries with the worst-case possible scenarios. 'Read me, mine's more scary!' 'And don't forget to put on your 'Michael Jackson masks.' News.com revived old archives citing a 2006 paper title, 'Global Macroeconomic Consequences of Pandemic Influenza' ...

Fanning the flames of fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2009
... which, AIG takes the cake in scaremongering. AIG's Powerpoint presentation to the US government was scarier than Michael Jackson's 'Thriller', or Michael Jackson himself. Bloomberg reported that, in its attempt to secure more money from the US taxpayers ...

Macquarie shuts down US mortgage operation

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2008
A week after Macquarie Bank announced its decision to get out of the Australian mortgage market, the group's US subsidiary Macquarie Mortgages Inc of Jacksonville, Florida, wrote to brokers informing them that it would no longer be accepting applications ...

Super promoter faces trial

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2008
Queensland-based Richard Clayton Jackson Sharland, a promoter of a superannuation rollover scheme, appeared in the Brisbane Magistrate Court yesterday to stand trial on a date to be fixed on 22 charges laid by the Australian Securities and Investments ...

Grange adds senior positions

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2007
... division to work alongside chief executive officer, Paul O'Halloran, to expand the Grange Asset Management business. Mark Jackson brings over 25 years of investment management experience to the Grange business, most recently as head of distribution with ...

The art of making money through artworks

... article that a number of the gallery's artworks are worth 80 times more than their initial purchase price. He mentioned Jackson Pollock's Blue poles, which he claimed has risen in value at a much faster rate than shares and property. But Carl Harman ...

The Future Fund for art's sake: NGA

... onto list a number of the gallery's "most expensive but safest" investments over the past sixty years, such as such as Jackson Pollock's Blue poles, which he claims has increased in value at a much faster rate that shares and property. "The value of ...

Finsuper and STA join forces

... members. The "in principle" decision came after a strategic review by the Finsuper Board. According to Finsuper CEO Debora Jackson, the arrangement will leave members better placed to receive the benefits of size and lower costs. "The merger into STA ...