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Wilson calls for Hunter Hall exit

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2017
Wilson Asset Management chair and activist investor Geoff Wilson is calling for Hunter Hall to provide shareholders the opportunity to exit the company's Global Value LIC at fair value. In a letter to the directors of Hunter Hall Global Value Limited ...

New CFO for Kinetic Super

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2017
A former Victorian Funds Management Corporation executive stepped in to a new role with Kinetic Super in December. Marc Pizzichetta will serve as chief financial officer for the $3 billion superannuation fund, joining after the resignation of head of ...

Brexit where?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2017
Latest UK labour market data provided more signs of PM Theresa May having the upper hand in Brexit negotiations. The country's unemployment rate remained at a low 4.8% in the three months to November with the employment rate holding at a record high ...

Activity and inflation going Yellen's way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2017
The latest activity and inflation figures out of the US fit in nicely with Fed Chair Janet Yellen's speech at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, California. Talking about "The Goals of Monetary Policy and How We Pursue Them", Yellen all but confirmed ...

Moody Aussies

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2017
What's ailing us, Australians all? We can't seem to swing our mood towards optimism. While the latest Westpac-Melbourne Institute consumer sentiment index increased for the first time in three months in January, the 0.1% monthly pick-up was marginal ...

ASIC imposes $40,000 penalty

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 17 JAN 2017
Financial services firm Pershing Securities paid a $40,000 infringement notice issued by ASIC's Markets Disciplinary Panel after a failure of its automated processing system. In a statement released by ASIC, the Markets Disciplinary Panel said they ...

Machineries not in order

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 JAN 2017
Just when we thought the sun's starting to shine. Japan private core machinery orders (orders excluding ships and electrical equipment) - a leading indicator of business investment - dropped by 5.1% in the month of November. This is heaps worse than ...

Mercer wins $250m NZ mandate

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 16 JAN 2017
Mercer won a mandate in December to manage a $250 million New Zealand investment portfolio. Following what the New Plymouth District Council described as a "rigorous process" with consulting actuaries Melville Jessup Weaver, Mercer will take the reins ...

A-dollar rising

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 JAN 2017
Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! Oi! Oi! Oi! Australia's legal tender is again doing the rounds of the headlines. Disappointment over Trump's press conference last week - he talked and talked about everything except about his economic policies - brought the ...

AMP Capital infrastructure platform secures US$2.4b

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 13 JAN 2017
AMP Capital secured US$2.4 billion ($3.2 billion) for its global infrastructure platform with Australian companies among more than 50 institutional investors committed to its global mandate. The platform, which includes the AMP Capital Global Infrastructure ...