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Macquarie announces new chair

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2015
... Corporation, the Australian Office of Financial Management, ALE Property Group and OzForex Group. Warne was also a director at the ASX and the Sydney Futures Exchange (prior to the latter merging with the ASX in 2006). From 1988 to 1999, he was head ...

ASX to set up shop in Hong Kong

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2015
ASX will open a local office in Hong Kong's financial district to better service its customer base in the Asian region. The office will open on 1 October and will be headed by Asian business development manager James Keeley. The move coincides with ...

FEATURE: Inflation plus investing

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2015
In a world where beating the benchmark is not enough, investors need to target returns above inflation. Laura Millan asks industry leaders how to succeed in the current economic environment. There was a time when investing was a matter of coming up ...

The case for super investing in agriculture

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2015
... 0.3% of MySuper assets are within the agriculture sector as of 30 June 2014. It also found 0.44% of listed companies on the ASX 200 are agriculture entities. Prime Super chief executive Lachlan Baird told Fairfax Media this week he did not foresee an ...

Financial services only mildly innovative: research

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2015
... there is a culture of innovation among their respective businesses. The figure was lower among the top 300 listed companies (ASX 300) with 32% recording a culture of innovation among their respective businesses. NAB surveyed 2000 businesses to assess ...

GBST managing director to retire

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2015
... chairman John Puttick said. "He leaves the business in great shape after 14 very successful years." In the 10 years since GBST's ASX listing, its market capitalisation has grown from $44 million to more than $300 million and revenue has increased five-fold ...

Star global equity manager to launch in Australia

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2015
... Morningstar has given it a five-star rating in the US. Marsico's strategy is already available to Australian investors through the ASX-listed Future Generation Global Investment Company, a philanthropic vehicle conceived by Wilson Asset Management's ...

ANZ completes $720m capital raising

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2015
ANZ has announced it has completed its $720 million share purchase plan offer. The bank's statement to the ASX said it will "accept all eligible applications and issue approximately $720 million of ANZ shares at $26.50 per share." The offer was originally ...

SSgA launches smart beta multi factor ETF

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2015
... World Quality Mix Fund tracks the MSCI World Quality Mix Index and has been listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). It gives investors access to an equally weighted combination of the MSCI Value Weighted Index, the MSCI Minimum Volatility ...

Super becoming the fifth estate

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2015
... the tough decision to sell down their $23 million stock holding. Against trillions of dollars worth of stocks traded on the ASX each year HESTA's Transfield divestment was so almost absurdly trivial, representing just 4% of Transfield's market cap and ...