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Family businesses provide engine for recovery

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012
... high on the agenda. While the majority of family businesses involved in the survey are advanced in terms of generation (third, fourth or older), relatively few (29%) were found to have family offices, with listed family businesses tending to set them ...

Five step process for QE3

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 20 SEP 2012
A five step process can help investors ride the US Federal Reserve's latest round of open-ended quantitative easing, said a senior Fidelity Investment head. Even if you are skeptical about the long-term impact of QE3, "it would be a bold call in the ...

Banks take Bell Group case to High Court

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2012
... distressed companies. What obligations the directors have to treat all creditors equally and the liabilities of banks and other third parties who support the directors are also being questioned. In addition, uncertainty around the approach courts should ...

Deutsche Bank restructures

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2012
... strategies together with retail asset management in one business unit including former Corporate Banking & Securities passive and third-party alternatives businesses such as ETFs. The change is part of a strategy unveiled last week by new co-chairmen ...

CEO bonuses tumbled in 2011

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2012
... paid CEO in 2011 is Mike Smith at ANZ with a statuary pay of $10,038,896 and a realised pay of 1$14,748,956. Taking the third palace for the same period is Gail Kelly at Westpac with statuary pay of $9,864,816 and realised pay of $8,604,292. ACSI said ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2012
... Sydney. In Australia, the market on Friday finished at a four-and-a-half-month high after the Fed announced that under a third round of quantitative easing (QE3), it will buy $US40 billion of mortgage-backed securities a month. At the close of trade ...

ipac securities awards Vinva $1.2bn mandate

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 14 SEP 2012
... Aussie equities. It is important therefore that we do a good job in the management of that sector, because if it's almost a third of the fund we better do a good job as its going to have strong impact," he said. AMP Capital currently manages over $34 ...

Sukuk demand to reach US$900bn in five years

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2012
Global demand for Sukuk is forecast to triple from US$300 billion to US$900 billion by 2017, according to recently released estimates from Ernst & Young. Conventional institutions are increasingly demanding Shari'a compliant securities alongside Islamic ...

Two down, one to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2012
... US Federal Reserve's monetary policy deliberations. Bloomberg reports that, "The Federal Reserve is likely to announce a third round of bond purchases tomorrow, according to almost two-thirds of economists in a Bloomberg survey, while also extending ...

Defensive investors may have traded risks

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2012
... deal with three permanent risks - interest rate risk, credit risk and inflation risk. As a starting hypothesis, about one third of a defensive portfolio could be invested each in floating rate, fixed rate and inflation-linked securities. "Firstly a high ...