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Folkestone acquires land for planned community

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2014
... interest in a 52.5 hectare residential master planned community in Melbourne's Truganina. ID-Land has a 20% interest in the project. Commenting on the JV, Folkestone managing director Greg Paramor said: "We are delighted, once again, to be joint venturing ...

FSI questions viability of franking credits

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2014
The viability of Australia's imputation (or 'franking') credits system has been singled out for review in the Financial System Inquiry's interim report. The report acknowledged that the franking credit system, which refunds corporation tax to low or ...

AMP axes regional head of advice roles

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2014
... regional offices in Perth and Adelaide.\ "I was familiar with the work AHC did for AMP in 2006 and was very impressed. The project they completed for AMP was ground breaking - so much so, a national TV advertising campaign was created around it," Reeh ...

NSW govt promises $60 billion infrastructure spend

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2014
The New South Wales government has said it will spend more than $60 billion on infrastructure over the next four years. The majority of this would take place after the next election, and would rely on continued income from the 'asset recycling program' ...

IFM bets $1bn on US shale gas revolution

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2014
... invested US$1 billion in a new liquefied natural gas (LNG) loading facility on Quintana Island near Freeport in Texas. The project will add liquefaction capabilities to the existing port at Quintana Island, allowing natural gas to be liquefied and thus ...

Growth and consequence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2014
With growth like this what's a central banker to do? It might have been too easy for the Fed to justify its steady taper as she goes despite the National Accounts showing that real GDP growth slowed to a snail dragging a very heavy object pace - 0.1% ...

Action! in June

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2014
European Central Bank president Mario Draghi appears to have dragged out his promised action on monetary policy long enough. While the ECB announced no changes in monetary policy after its Governing Council meeting last night - the benchmark rate at ...

Knight Janet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2014
"...like a knight in shining armour From a long time ago Just in time I will save the day..." - Glory of Love 'Twas a yahoo day on Wall Street overnight not only because of the 6.3% rally in Yahoo, Inc's share price - on better than predicted revenue ...

EQT to buy ANZ Trustees for $150m

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2014
ANZ will sell its ANZ Trustees business to Equity Trustees (EQT) and form a new strategic relationship with the financial services provider involving a range of client referral and service arrangements. The transaction is expected to be completed in ...

Less than 15% meet ASFA standard of retirement savings

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2014
Less than 15% of Australians aged 40 to 64 meet the standard set by Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) for retirement savings, according to a survey by Towers Watson and the University of Melbourne. The research has determined that ...