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Hockey names infrastructure top priority for G20

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2014
... simply do not have the budgetary capacity to match the massive demand for new capital, we must turn to the private sector to fire up its enormous cash reserves to fund new investment in roads, rail, ports and energy and water production. This partnership ...

"Considerable time", is it a-changin'?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2014
... VIX index reached a high of 17.01 heading into last September's meeting. These could have prompted our friend Ben to hold fire on taper despite widespread market expectations. By the same token, today's sanguine equity and bond market and VIX reaction ...

Van Eyk enters voluntary administration

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2014
... is underway." Earlier this month one of van Eyk's major shareholders has expressed concern about the make-up of the under-fire research and asset consulting company's board.

Questions raised about independence of van Eyk board

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014
One of van Eyk's major shareholders has expressed concern about the make-up of the under-fire research and asset consulting company's board. Australasian Wealth Investments (AWI), which owns a 36% stake in van Eyk, remains concerned that there are currently ...

Hold fire: Emerging market debt set for correction

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2014
Investors considering allocating to emerging market debt should hold fire for the time being because the end of stimulus measures in the US will bring a more attractive risk-reward trade-off. That is the view of HSBC Global Asset Management head of ...

Challenger adds firepower to annuities business

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2014
Challenger's $530 million capital raising program is likely to tighten the company's already firm grip on the lucrative annuities market. The figure will be raised from a combination of a $250 million institutional share placement and a $30 million ...

Goldilocks is back in town

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2014
Toto, I've a feeling we're back in Goldilocksville. Now that the headlines have grown tired of counting and recounting of lives lost - and collateral damages - the US/EU-Russia tits-for-tats, the "humanitarian" trucks toing and froing through the Ukrainian ...

Fear me not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2014
Geopolitical tensions ease, geopolitical tensions boil, geo-political tensions ease, geo-political tensions boil, geo-political... Financial markets continue to seesaw on this, just like they did with QE (I, II and III) on/QE (I, II and III) off and ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2014
The Australian stock market has opened higher following positive leads from Wall Street and a raft of encouraging local earnings results, including telecommunications giant Telstra. Despite lucklustre retail sales data all the major US markets gained ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2014
... Spooner said. "This has created some downward momentum in stocks." Closer to home, Mr Spooner said most investors were holding fire until the full swing of earning season added further market clarity. In resource stocks, BHP recovered earlier losses ...