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Former Macquarie exec to head up EFIC

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2013
... Government." EFIC provides loans, guarantees, bonds and insurance products to help Australian companies finance export-related ventures when private loans are unobtainable.

Newpin SBB benefits from international legal expertise

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2013
Law firm Allen & Overy has announced that it has advised Social Ventures Australia on their $7 million Social Benefit Bond (SBB), issued earlier this year. The SBB is the first of its kind in Australia, and will fund the UnitingCare Burnside Newpin ...

Direct insurance sales grow on consumer confidence

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2013
... Weatherhead. Despite solid growth in the direct life insurance market overall, Rice Warner said many direct life insurance ventures have failed to deliver the anticipated business volumes and others have been closed. Some insurers have experienced higher ...

SBBs to be part of NGS Super's new ethical option

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2013
... Rodwell-Ball said. NGS Super announced this week that it would be investing $500,000 in Newpin SBBs, launched by Social Ventures Australia (NVA) earlier this year. The SBBs will fund UnitingCare Burnside's program reuniting parents with children in foster ...

QIC takes stake in US shopping malls

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2013
... QIC Global Real Estate managing director Steven Leigh. Forest City will be the managing member of the individual joint ventures and will continue to be responsible for leasing, operations, marketing, financing, development services and asset management ...

UBS creates APAC real estate role

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2013
... Wels said. Head of Asia Pacific for UBS Kai Sotorp indicated that the company would be looking to build on its joint ventures with existing hubs in the Asia Pacific region. "Trevor's extensive knowledge and management experience with institutional clients ...

Open wide, come inside

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2013
... Singh's government opened up Indian industries to foreign investment and also raised foreign ownership of "local insurance ventures" to 49% from 26%, and "for the first time permit foreign direct investment of as much as 26 percent in pension funds..." ...

Corporate spending the catalyst for global markets

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2012
... in corporate spending. As well as capital spending, we would look for M&A activity, share buy backs or joint business ventures as other signs that managers are more confident about putting cash to work." Looking ahead to 2013, Milligan says it remains ...

Market wrap late AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2012
... some concerns among market analysts about whether ANZ would be able to sustain the revenue performance of its offshore ventures. The other big retail banks were mixed - CBA was steady $57.08, NAB was up nine cents at $25.99 and Westpac was steady at ...

AFA names Female Excellence in Advice finalists

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2012
... communities and networks. "There are female advisers building best practice models within larger organisations, joint ventures with suppliers of accounting or legal services and women who not only have their own businesses but have started them from ...