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ClearView's majority shareholder considering sell-off

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2016
ClearView has announced in a trading update that it has appointed Morgan Stanley to evaluate its options following the news that a private equity firm is considering selling its 53% stake in the company. ClearView's board is aware that Crescent Capital ...

Time to fear the no "fear gauge"?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2016
Yippee-kay-yay! 'twas a good week for most major equity markets last week, all were blinking the happy bright and happy colour green....and this, just as we're about to see the end days of May - yes, the month when we're advised to sell and go away....and ...

Former politician joins fintech board

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2016
People seeking good financial advice don't need or want to be sold products along the way, according to a former federal politician and soon-to-be fintech board member. Joining the board of online automated adviser Map My Plan from 1 June will be former ...

Fixed income investors turning to Serbia

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2016
... important because, at the moment, "fixed income isn't so much at a fork in the road as driving straight off a cliff. We're in a major deleveraging cycle and while Australia isn't in negative-rate territory yet, I wouldn't be surprised if it did get there ...

Industry fund CEO joins MGP

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2016
... non-executive director Paul Collins. Collins was a founding board member of MGP subsidiary managedaccounts.com.au, and also played a major role in taking MGP to IPO in 2014. He chaired the group's audit, risk and compliance committee. "Together we guided ...

Westpac prices climate bond at $500m

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2016
... Australian bank, [with] all Australian assets, going to international markets with a best practice green bond offering is a major development. Westpac has a high global profile on sustainability issues; this move into green bond markets will add to that ...

Qualitas adds two directors

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2016
... alternative financing is growing in the Australian real estate market. Qualitas group managing director Andrew Schwartz said: "The major banks are uniformly pulling back from their construction lending activities due to various regulatory constraints ...

Diversity among ASX companies slowly improves

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2016
Just over one quarter (26%) of non-executive directors of Australia's top 200 companies are female, an increase of 4% from 2013, according to new research by KPMG Australia for the ASX Education and Research Program. The KPGM report, which began in ...

Vanguard launches Australian corporate bond ETF

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2016
... prove to be an important element in many portfolios as investors' appreciation of that asset class grows. Now that all the major asset classes are covered by ETFs in Australia, providing investors with options for more nuanced use of fixed income was ...

Knight Financial Advisors unveils new MDA service

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2016
... we've also addressed many of the challenges commonly faced by advisers who specialise in direct investing," he said. "A major benefit is our ability to quickly implement dynamic asset allocation changes and investment ideas based on market developments ...