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Higher...higher and higher

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2009
... itself out of the hole it blew itself - and the rest of the world - down into. Things are surer Downunder. Heck, the Lucky Country is so lucky, financial markets are betting even-money odds that the RBA will start raising interest rates already as early ...

CalPERS buys Macquarie property

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2009
One of the US' largest pension funds, CalPERS, has forked out $550 million for a 60 per cent slice of a Macquarie CountryWide Trust's portfolio of shopping centers. The $224 billion California Public Employees' Retirement System closed the half a billion ...

Cuscal partners with Payment Adviser

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2009
... are made every year on behalf of 12 million Australians and the SME sector represents 95 per cent of employers in the country. "The government - most recently the Prime Minister himself - has called for innovation and increased efficiency in Australia's ...

Capstone FP eyes more practices

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2009
... always in consideration," he said. "So much so that we would be in discussions with 30 different practices across the country of which our normal average is to put on 10 to 12 in the next 12 months." O'Riley said the group's strategy had centred around ...

Super must become more efficient: PM

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2009
... important Australia maintains an internationally competitive taxation regime that doesn't penalise us as a "capital importing country". The Prime Minister also recommitted his government to halving the commonwealth budget by 2013 and signalled additional ...

AMP Capital targets Japanese savings

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2009
... the firm's strategy to develop its retail and institutional business in Japan after AMP Capital opened an office in the country 18 months ago. "AMP Capital Japan KK has a very limited licence but the Gemini business was fully licenced to operate both ...

CommInsure launches insurance WriteAway

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2009
... then, in real time." Browne said that CommInsure hopes to use better insurance processing technologies to address the country's chronic underinsurance. The group is a member of the LifeWise campaign, an industry initiative to better educate the public ...

RBNZ could go zero

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2009
... over the next four years to kick-start the economy. But the severe weakness in the economy has called into question the country's ability to repay this deficit. This doubt became manifest last Friday when Fitch Ratings revised NZ's credit outlook rating ...

Macq trust sells US property

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2009
... Trust has sold 86 US based properties for a gross $1.6 billion, which represents four fifths of the trust's assets in the country. The deal, when closed, will remove $1.3 billion of US domiciled commercial mortgage backed security (CMBS) debt which is ...

Aussies lag behind in PRI implementation

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2009
... the implementation of governance, policy and strategy (GPS) was lower than the bottom quartile in any other developed country. "This suggests that a significant proportion of signatories from the region have not yet developed their implementation of ...