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Corporate bond issue closes at $35m oversubscribed

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2015
... bond market. "When it comes to fixed income securities including bonds, the OTC market is overwhelmingly the main game in town accounting for 99% of bond turnover in Australia," Paton said. "This initiative will ensure that smaller investors can stand ...

D-day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2015
... Damocles' sword falling not only over Damocles' head but on heads collective. Equity markets from New York to Rio and old London town sold off - big time - with corresponding lifting in volatilities as Grexit continues to dominate headlines. Indications ...

Graccident averted (yet again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2015
Hoo-wow! Houston, we had lift-off. Yes Virginia, financial markets from New York to Rio and old London town lifted off while we slept. Equity markets jumped while bond yields dived. These, because on optimism that a Greco-troika deal would be hammered ...

BOJ in (tactical) retreat

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2015
... gonna be a bright (bright), bright (bright) sun-shiny day." -Everlife Equity markets from New York to Rio and old London town bounded sharply higher while you, I and Irene were still in the stage of REM sleep as optimism returned - more specifically ...

New kid on the block

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2015
... the street; it sounds so familiar Great expectations, everybody's watching you... Everybody's talking 'bout the new kid in town." - Eagles Well, not quite yet Virginia but, if recent reports are confirmed there'll be a new kid in the MSCI Emerging Markets ...

Big end of town to face Senate over bad advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
Australia's top bankers will have to explain what went wrong in their advice divisions at a public Senate hearing in Canberra on Tuesday. Chaired by Labor Senator Sam Dastyari, the Senate Economics Committee will interrogate Macquarie Group chief executive ...

All roads leading to China's "one road"

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2015
... its doors in October this year and already, they came and are coming... in droves... from New York to Rio and old London town (sorry, NY's ego's still in the way). The good news is that unlike the IMF and the ADB - which you read about mainly when economic ...

Degrees don't ensure good financial advice

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2015
... There is a level of unfairness in being told that just because you don't have degree and you're 62. You don't want to leave town, so you then have the debate of whether you're just grandfathering people in to make it easier."

REST appoints former NAB general manager

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015
REST Industry Super has appointed former NAB Asset Management general manager of distribution and client management as its new chief operating officer. Prior to NAB Asset Management, Andrew Howard held several other management positions at the bank ...

Australian Unity expands healthcare property trust

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015
... Unity's HPT has acquired three other properties in the past eight months for a total of $45.85 million. These are a Kent Town (SA) healthcare property, a building in Townsville (QLD) to be converted to a mental health facility and the Brisbane Waters ...