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Gloomy outlook forces Crowe Horwath to trim business

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2013
... Crowe Horwath's Melbourne-based firm will acquire a 50% interest in the financial planning, lending and risk insurance operations of that firm by February 1, 2014. The company attributes the fall of revenue to weak demand for advice services and to the ...

Think Holden, think not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2013
... now and 2015" (AFR). Like Ford Australia - which only last May announced it's shutting down all of its manufacturing operations by 2016 - before it, Holden's had been kept alive through the kindness of Australian taxpayers. And for our largesse, what ...

Managed accounts specialist appoints CEO

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2013

International shares pose barriers to entry

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2013
... many investors are likely to say they gain their international equities exposure through Australian stocks with global operations. International equities have been one of the top performing asset classes of 2013 with the MSCI World ex Australia (Net ...

How green are 'green funds'?

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2013
... now-defunct Green Shares option. HESTA, in its 'Eco Pool' option, only excludes companies with uranium mining and tobacco operations, leaving it free to invest in 'best of sector' fossil fuel miners. Local Government Super (LGS), a fund known for its ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2013
... 13 cents to $31.91. Among the big miners, market heavyweight Rio Tinto was making news, announcing it would suspend operations at its loss-making Northern Territory alumina refinery, which employs 1,500 people. It's also announced it could expand its ...

LUCRF Super appoints head of investments

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2013

Down, down, A$ stay down (please?)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2013

Index portfolios mask geographical risks

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 NOV 2013
... business," Budden explained. Budden said that the emerging trend for Australian super funds to take their investment operations in-house could exasperate the problem, as few will have the necessary analyst coverage to build an accurate picture of geographical ...

Aberdeen set to buy UK fund manager SWIP

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 NOV 2013