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HOSTPLUS consortium wins Destination Sydney bid

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012
... HostPlus will provide 50% of the equity alongside Lend Lease, with debt being provided by a consortium of local and overseas banks. The project shows how super funds are evolving to become active sources of capital to finance major projects, said HOSTPLUS ...

FoFA reforms dilute platform pricing power: Centurion

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012
... management models," Wrightson explained. The transaction expert believes that we will increasingly see retailers like AMP and the banks competing on their direct service offer to investors, as well as the productivity and breadth of their proprietary ...

One-stop admin and investment shops target SMSFs

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2012
Major players in equities, cash and other debt instruments - notably large fund managers and major banks - are well positioned to aggressively move into the SMSF fund administration space currently dominated by accountants, according to Chris Lumby ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012
Australian stocks have opened firmer amid broad-based gains with the big banks and miners all higher in early trade. At 1037 AEDT on Friday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 33.7 points, or 0.75 per cent, at 4,543 points, while the broader All ...

Fidelity ups risk on global recovery hopes

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012
... to build," Greetham continued. "Commodities should also gain as global growth starts to pick up, while evidence that US banks are starting to lend again should support the US property market." The investment specialist says liquidity support from the ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2012
... index futures contract was 15 points higher at 4,520 points, on a volume of 7,145 contracts. Australia's big four retail banks were in positive territory at the start of trade, as market players waited for their response to the central bank's 25 basis ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2012
... boosted by a Greek debt buyback program and the approval by eurozone finance ministers of a bailout for Spain's troubled banks. But at the close, London's FTSE 100 index of leading companies had slipped 0.08 per cent lower to 5,869.04 points, on the ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2012
... basis points to three per cent. Financial stocks were among the market's better performers, with two of the big four retail banks up in early trade. CBA had risen 36 cents, or 0.59 per cent, to $61.17 and NAB had advanced 16 cents, or 0.66 per cent to ...

Uncertainly certain RBA cut

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2012
... strong Australian dollar - provides a summary of the rationales behind the near (92%) certainty that the Australian central banks will announce a rate cut by 0230 this day. Other rationales include: the RBA would not want to wait two months before acting ...

Cloud computing to boost real-time super

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012
... are more robust, more secure and more stable than the IT infrastructure used in the past. Three, if not all four, major banks in Australia have already adopted the cloud model, said Slee, demonstrating that it can be done and might actually be a huge ...