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Insto investor acquires $236.6m US property

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2015
QIC has bought a $236.6 million (US$174.4 million) shopping centre on behalf of a major Australian institutional investor. The acquisition represents QIC's first 100% owned US property and it follows the investor's two-year US real estate joint venture ...

Forget LICs, the key to retail is in active ETFs

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2015
Active managers targeting mum and dad investors have rushed to launch their funds as listed investment companies (LICs) on the ASX, but a growing number of professional investors think the key to retail is elsewhere. Lazard Asset Management managing ...

Capital raising not total solution: CIFR

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2015
... (APRA) recently increased capital adequacy requirements for residential mortgage exposures. APRA also believes the country's major banks will need to increase capital adequacy ratios by at least 200 basis points to be comfortably positioned in the top ...

PBOC does an SNB

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2015
... the yuan. No need to calculate the cross rates to know that, in effect, the yuan has strengthened against all the other major currencies. Could it be that the PBOC is just doing a Swiss National Bank (SNB) - when it abandoned its defence of the franc ...

CBA profit tops $9 billion

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2015
... The bank's expenses increased 5% on the prior year with regulatory compliance and financial planning remediation costs the major drivers. CBA invested $1.2 billion on risk and compliance projects, technology and productivity. During the past financial ...

Macquarie advisers defect to start independent firm

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2015
Four senior executives and financial planners from Macquarie Private Wealth (MPW) have left the group to start their own non-aligned boutique advice firm. Jeffrey Wrightson, Stephen Thaxter, Chris Forrest and Nina Kazmierczak have set up Sovereign Wealth ...

Blue Sky flushes dunnies

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
Blue Sky Private Equity has sold its majority stake in portable toilet hire company Viking Rentals, to which it felt a special attachment because it was one of its first investments. Blue Sky has sold the stake to an Adelaide-based investment group ...

Murray slams "silly suggestions"

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
David Murray, chair of the Financial System Inquiry, has stirred the debate around super board independence, saying it has deteriorated into a "set of silly suggestions." In his final FSI report, Murray recommended that super funds appoint a majority ...

Divestment could reach $50bn in five years

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
... seriously proposing that because transitioning how economies consume energy will take decades and the coal industry will be a major energy producer for many years to come. But long term investors - fiduciary entities that have signed up to PRI, representing ...

ASX builds fund supermarket

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2015
The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) openly says one of its strategic priorities is to continue to build out an investment supermarket. Already among the supermarket aisles are about 380 fund products with more than $200 billion in market capitalisation ...