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NAB and FSC tight-lipped on Hockey meetings

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2014
... about their involvement in Treasurer Joe Hockey's cash-for-meetings program reported by Fairfax this morning. Both The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age this morning reported that Joe Hockey is offering meetings with himself in return for political donations ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2014
... The Nikkei gave up 27.62 points to finish at 14,457.51, while Seoul slipped 0.12 per cent, or 2.35 points, to 1,959.44. Sydney added 0.17 per cent, or 9.3 points, to 5,458.1 and Hong Kong rose 0.57 per cent, or 126.70 points, to 22,260.67. Shanghai was ...

Macquarie profit up 49%

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2014
... anticipates its profit will be roughly in line with this year's result, which was boosted by one-off gains from its holding in Sydney Airport, which it exited during the year. Shareholders received a special dividend of $1.16 per share following the ...

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AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2014
... Shanghai added 0.30 per cent, or 6.02 points, to 2,026.36 on the last day of the week's trading before a public holiday. Sydney was flat, nudging up 2.5 points to 5,489.1. WELLINGTON - The benchmark index rose 84.39 points, or 1.6 per cent, to 5232.68 ...

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AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 APR 2014
... Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce is slated to speak at a Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Western Australia lunch in Sydney, while Bendigo and Adelaide Bank managing director Mike Hirst is down to speak at an American Chamber of Commerce in Australia ...

No cut to age pension in this term: Abbott

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2014
... an end to speculation that the pension would be cut back in next month's budget. However, the PM used his address to the Sydney Institute last night to state his intention of making changes to the age pension if he wins a second term. "To keep our commitments ...

JANA awards $385m mandate to Californian manager

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2014
... total assets under management of $2.5 billion. JANA is a leading investment consulting firm, with offices in Melbourne and Sydney. Its core business is providing traditional and implemented consulting advice to institutional clients, including corporate ...

Winton appoints Platinum exec to head Sydney office

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2014
... UK fund manager Winton Capital has recruited Andrew Grimes from Platinum Asset Management to head up its recently opened Sydney office. Grimes was an institutional investment specialist with the $23 billion global equities manager for more than 5 years. ...

Treasurer readies electorate for Age Pension cuts

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2014
... yet that cuts to the Age Pension will headline a raft of belt-tightening measures in the upcoming Budget. In a speech at Sydney's Doltone House yesterday, the Treasurer said that Australia's spending was higher than other developed economies and growing ...

FEATURE: Re-imagining Australia's financial future

STAFF WRITERS  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2014
... guarantee financial institutions," Murray told the Committee of Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) conference in Sydney. "Then, who of us would have thought, before 2008, that the Australian Government would one day have to guarantee Australian ...