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China not heading for a property bust

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2010
Talks of a property bubble in China are overstated as the Chinese government has introduced new home ownership and lending rules to cool the market, said an investment expert. "I don't think we have a bubble yet," said Samantha Ho, investment director ...

Lazard Carnegie Wylie offloads local Dun & Bradstreet

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2010
Dun & Bradstreet Corporation in the US has bought the independently-owned Australian and New Zealand operations from private equity firm Lazard Carnegie Wylie for A$233 million. The deal will place Australia in the centre of D&B Corporation's aggressive ...

IOOF books $225m net inflows, simplifies ops

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2010
IOOF Holdings, the listed financial services group that could become the new owner of the AXA North platform subject to ongoing AXA APH merger talks, books a strong set of full-year results and flags the continuing consolidation of its various business ...

AustralianSuper retains $1bn Concord mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 AUG 2010
AustralianSuper's $1 billion Australian equities mandate with Concord Capital will remain in place following Invesco Australia's buyout of Concord, confirmed a senior investment executive at the $30 billion-plus industry fund. Peter Curtis, senior manager ...

Home trouble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 AUG 2010
Horrendous! Terrible! Shockingly disappointing! These are just some of the adjectives the financial press quoting the analysts, quoting the economists, quoting the experts used to describe last night's disappointing US housing data. Latest figures from ...

ISS co-founder leaves proxy advice industry

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 24 AUG 2010
A prominent face of the Australia proxy advice industry has signaled his departure after ISS Australian operations co-founder Dean Paatsch announced that he is leaving the governance advisory firm after six years. Paatsch's history is that of being ...

DB's Boyton sees "slow, steady decline" in Aussie housing

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 20 AUG 2010
... credit allocation process is fundamentally different," he said. "I think this is really under-appreciated. If you're an owner-occupier in Australia, your interest payments aren't tax deductible. So what that means is, if you've got a mortgage rate of ...

RIAA unveils investment academy

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 19 AUG 2010
The Responsible Investment Academy will launch its first suite of programs at the seventh international responsible investment conference in Sydney next month. The Responsible Investment Academy, backed by the Responsible Investment Association of Australasia ...

ACCC chairman withdraws from merger talks

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 AUG 2010
... press reports, NAB is one of the four lenders to Austexx, an investment vehicle that Samuel is invested in, and which is the owner of the DFO chain of factory outlet shopping malls.

Capital raisings shun small investors: ISS

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 17 AUG 2010
When global credit markets seized up in late 2008 and for much of 2009, Australia's blue chip companies were forced to look to equity markets for much needed funding. Almost $100 billion in new equity was raised, but the average investor didn't really ...