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US golden opportunity for listed infrastructure

ALEX BURKE, LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
... infrastructure portfolio of "about 35 to 45" companies on exchanges "throughout the world." Humphreys continued: "I think we're pretty well-placed to enter this space because it's a large life insurance company, with very long term liabilities, which ...

PROFILE: PM Capital CIO Paul Moore

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
... club in with his former boss? "To be honest I'm not the sort of person that can work for someone else. I knew that and I'm pretty sure Kerr knew that as well!" he laughs. "For better or for worse, I like digging the hole myself." After successfully steering ...

Economist asleep over budget investment market impact

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
... some doomsters would like to see. "The problem is that business investment outside mining, and maybe including mining, is pretty poor. We're yet to see a turnaround on that front. The mining investment boom has a long way to deflate and the investment ...

Budget for uncertainty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... is it Social Services Minister Scott Morrison's first?). Prime Minister Tony Abbot "promised" that this one would be a "pretty dull and pretty routine" budget. Then again, with Tony Abbott, we can never be sure. And then, there's the question of how ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
... "potential dangers" to financial stability. Chris Low, chief economist at FTN Financial, said Yellen's remarks suggested she is "pretty eager" to raise ultra-low interest rates despite some disappointing economic data. "She seems to be hinting that they're ...

Advice industry faces insurance quandary

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2015
... "hypocritical" for Hodges to suggest banks shouldn't contribute. "The banks have financial services divisions that make up a pretty huge portion of the total financial planning sector in Australia, so I think they'd have to come under the exact same ...

FEATURE: Where next for risk advice?

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2015
... Given the AFA's pivotal role in the process that led to the report, it's perhaps unsurprising that he describes himself as "pretty disappointed". The full article appears in the latest edition of Financial Standard. Download it here.

PROFILE: Findex chief executive Spiro Paule

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
... corporate management role with US insurance company, Aetna. "At the time I'd had about four or five years in the role. It was pretty senior role - I had about 200 people reporting to me at the time and was still in my 20s," Paule explains. "I left that ...

A fantabulous set of jobs numbers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
... Friedman. More full-time jobs brings about expectations of more permanent income that, in turn, encourages spending (but pretty please, not on more investment housing). Full-time jobs increased by 41,900 in Feb. The unemployment rate also flashed good ...

All roads leading to China's "one road"

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2015
... Customs and other regulations that might inhibit trade and investment are to be smoothed out." China's building it and I'm pretty sure they'll come... even perhaps, Uncle Sam.