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Channel Capital acquires QIC small cap business

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2014
QIC's Australian small cap investment team will shortly join Brisbane-based global investment business Channel Capital. QIC agreed to divest its smaller companies capability after determining it a non-core business. Channel Capital was spun out fund ...

Australian budget to blow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2014
Minute to win it!... or rather the minutes of the Fed's 18-19 March FOMC meeting win it for Wall Street. The S&P 500 and the Dow jumped by 1.1% and yesterday's hated Nasdaq is now loved again, up 1.7%. But this was - more or less - how we saw it when ...

Front-runners

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2014
In big picture terms, not much happened last week. Yes Virginia, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) kept policy unchanged - as expected. The European Central Bank (ECB) guided forward but also stayed on the sidelines. US non-farm payrolls added another ...

Onus on consumers to ask about commissions: Sinodinos

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2014
... Financial Advice (FoFA) reforms on ABC's Lateline last night, Sinodinos said consumers must quiz financial advisers to discover whether they are indeed operating solely in the best interest of their client. When asked how clients could be sure that the ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2014
... edged up, with investors sitting on the sidelines as they await the first testimony by the Federal Reserve's new head to discover her plans for its stimulus program. Sydney rose 0.62 per cent, or 32.4 points, to close at 5,254.5 and Seoul added 0.46 ...

Sunsuper acquires holiday park chain

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2014
Queensland-based industry fund Sunsuper has acquired a 98% stake in nationwide holiday park chain Discovery Holiday Parks. Under the arrangement, the $26 billion super fund, which already held shares in the company, acquired a "significant majority ...

Future Fund defiant in face of airport legal proceedings

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2013

Unwind for Xmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2013
... on http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2013/12/06/hilsenraths-five-takeaways-on-what-the-jobs-report-means-for-the-fed/ and discover that he'll be correct whichever way the Fed decides. So how does one interpret the markets' reaction to the positive US employment ...

AIA hoping to increase engagement through fitness

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2013
AIA Australia is hoping to increase Australians' engagement with the insurance industry through fitness and has started a pilot program that will fully launch in early 2014. The AIA Vitality program is a joint venture between the group insurer and South ...

ASIC to scrutinise The New Daily

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 21 NOV 2013
Confusion about the funding model of The New Daily has shown no sign of abating, after Nationals Senator John Williams requested the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) scrutinise The New Daily on the grounds that it is a bad investment. ...