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Macquarie makes bid for listed property portal

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2016
Macquarie has made a bid to acquire Onthehouse, a popular online real estate research portal listed on the ASX. The bid would see the banking group (via subsidiary PIQ1) and 77VSV acquire 100% of Onthehouse capital at $0.755 per share. Because two Onthehouse ...

ASIC bans former Macquarie adviser for market manipulation

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015
ASIC has banned a former Macquarie Equities accredited derivatives adviser for market manipulation. Working with a former Credit Suisse employee, Tony Davidof manipulated the price of MINI derivatives via sequential buy and sell trades after both pre-arranging ...

Pillar layoffs unrelated to privatisation

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015
Pillar Administration has denied that calls for voluntary redundancies are related to the upcoming sale of the company. In fact, Pillar chief executive Peter Brook explained, the superannuation administrator had been planning to reduce employees since ...

AMP Capital to acquire Nordic infrastructure company

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015
AMP Capital has partnered with Infracapital to take a 100% equity stake in Adven Group Oy. Adven is a provider of energy infrastructure for businesses in Finland, Sweden and Estonia. Some of its services included district heat solutions, regulated gas ...

NZ Super Fund invests in affordable housing

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015
The NZ Super Fund has partnered with two investment managers to develop affordable housing in Auckland. Ngāi Tahu Property and New Ground Capital have joined with the super fund to invest $106 million to build roughly 200 new homes in Auckland's ...

China emerging as fintech leader

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2015
China is taking a leading presence in the fintech sector, according to KPMG research. In partnership with H2 Ventures, KPMG released the Fintech 100 report, which lists the top 50 established "leaders" in the sector along with 50 emerging companies. ...

NAB appoints group executive

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2015
NAB has appointed a new group executive, people. Lorraine Murphy joins NAB from Air New Zealand, where she was chief people officer. Prior to that, she held roles at Campbell Soup Company, Arnotts Asia Pacific and AGL. Commenting on her appointment ...

Perpetual appoints investments chief

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2015
Perpetual has appointed a new group executive, Perpetual Investments. David Kiddie joins Perpetual from PNP Paribas Investment Partners, where he was chief executive of institutional business. Prior to that, he was chief investment officer at AMP Capital's ...

AFA winner highlights retirement fears

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2015
The Association of Financial Advisers' 2015 Adviser of the Year has said many of his clients are "afraid" of retirement, and not just because of financial concerns. Speaking at a Zurich event in Sydney, The Retirement Advice Centre retirement adviser ...

Zurich appoints global life chief

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2015
Zurich has appointed a new chief executive, global life. Gary Shaughnessy has taken on the role having been chief executive of Zurich UK Life since June 2012. He also became Zurich's UK country head in 2014. Prior to Zurich, he was managing director ...