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Builder launches $40 million bond issue

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2016
The latest company in a series of property groups to issue bonds has announced its launch in to the market this week. Home builder Impact Group announced a $40 million issue of five-year fixed rate notes, arranged by FIIG Securities. The issue follows ...

NAB appoints group executive

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2015
... and the Executive Leadership team, will be a rewarding experience. I am also really looking forward to returning to my home town of Melbourne, to take up this fantastic and important role." NAB chief executive Andrew Thorburn added, "I am pleased to ...

ASX jumps "despite" naughty news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2015
Ho ho ho! Santa's in town. That's the feeling one gets when one looks at the Australian equity markets' performance on the first trading day of that merriest month of the year. The S&P/ASX 200 index started the day strong and finished stronger - up ...

Funds SA chair departs

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2015
The South Australian government will be announcing a new Funds SA chairman within the next month after Helen Nugent announced her departure on Friday. Nugent will step down on 8 December 2015, and after 15 years as chairman of Funds SA. During this ...

AMG to take Abax stake

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2015
Global asset manager AMG has entered into an agreement to acquire an equity stake in Abax Investments. Based in Cape Town and formed in 2003, Abax is a South African investment management firm with over $7.6 billion in assets under management. It specialises ...

PROFILE: REI Super chief executive Mal Smith

DARREN SNYDER, LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2015
... was a bit of a recession going on. In those days, you put your CV out as a new graduate to all of the major employers in town and hoped to get a response," he explains. AMP picked his, even though "in those days you were never set out to have a career ...

Hotel California

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2015
... by 2.5% last week with the euro dropping by 3.1% between 16 October and 23 October to US$1.1010 (when Santa Mario came to town). Still, Draghi insists that the exchange rate is "important for price stability, for growth, but it's not a policy target. ...

Christmas in October

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2015
"You better watch out You better not cry You better not pout I'm telling you why..." Central banks are coming to town - and they've loaded lots of toys and goodies on their sleigh. Back to back central bank stimulus measure surprises - promised and ...

PROFILE: Blue Sky managing director Mark Sowerby

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
... meet in Bondi at the site of the asset manager's very first investment, Mexican food chain Beach Burrito Company. He's in town to sample a new menu. Nine and a half years after capitalising the business with its first $250,000, it's clear the ties are ...

ASIC funding model needs "meat on the bones"

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2015
... he said. "The reality is smaller cap companies can take up more regulatory focus, time and attention than their big-end-of-town cousins," he added. Burrell considered surprising that "ASIC resources devoted to phoenix activities that do not occur in ...