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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
... faller was Tesco, which closed at a hefty loss of 11.59 per cent at 203.00 pence, hitting its lowest level in more than a decade. The euro was stable against the dollar. HONG KONG - Asian markets mostly slipped on profit-taking. Investors seemed unimpressed ...

CEO pay at lowest level in decade

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2014
Chief executive pay is at its lowest level in a decade, according to a new report by the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors. At an average $4.84 million, the chief executives of ASX 100 companies make 63 times as much money as the average ...

QBE to invest $100 million in social benefit bonds

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2014
... has estimated that the social impact investment market could be worth as much as US$1 trillion globally by the end of the decade, including a$32 billion in Australia. National Australia Bank was also present, and announced had established a $1 million ...

Hockey names infrastructure top priority for G20

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2014
... energy and water production. This partnership will help to create millions of new jobs." Hockey predicted that over the next decade there would be a "massive increase" in demand for private funding of infrastructure, adding that Australia was already ...

Instos offer advice at a loss to drive product sales: EY

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2014
Large financial institutions have undervalued advice for decades by offering it at a loss to lead clients into product sales, Ernst & Young (EY) have said in their submission to the Financial System Inquiry (FSI). EY argued that decades old industry ...

State Street appoints head of alternatives in Asia

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2014
State Street's new head of alternatives for Asia Pacific will look after the organisation's hedge fund, private equity and real estate businesses in the region. Bob Keogh will be based in Hong Kong and has more than two decades of experience in financial ...

SG frozen till 2021, industry 'dismayed'

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2014
... Joe Hockey and Finance Minister Mathias Cormann said the measure would save the budget around $50 billion over the next decade. Hockey described it as "a damn good deal for the Australian people." While the SG will be frozen for seven years, it will ...

IFM warns against foreign ownership of infrastructure

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2014
... ANZ Bank estimates that more than $110 billion of Australian asset privatisations could take place before the end of this decade and that an additional $50 billion worth of PPP projects will commence before 2020. As a solution to super funds' relative ...

Heads up to where Wall Street's heading

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2014
... escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have in Japan over the past decade? And how do we factor that assessment into monetary policy?" Then again, Wall Street continued to climb over the next ...

Multi-asset emerging market approach halves volatility

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2014
A multi-asset approach which blends emerging market debt, dividend paying stocks and high growth small and mid-sized companies is the key to easing institutional investors' anxiety about the high level of volatility that comes with investing in developing ...