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Family-owned companies beating equity markets across all regions

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2017
... region and every sector since 2006. The research was based on about 1000 of these companies, and it found that part of the secret to their outperformance was a longer-term, conservative focus on capital preservation. New investments made by these businesses ...

Trump-flation returns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 SEP 2017
Love him or loathe him, Donald Trump remains the stuff of headlines going into and since he won the 8 November 2016 US presidential election. Reports abound about Trump versus Kim, Trump versus NATO, Trump versus the NFL, Trump versus Alec Baldwin and ...

Contango appoints small cap portfolio manager

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 14 SEP 2017
Contango Asset Management (CGA) has appointed the portfolio manager for its small cap strategy. Richard Ivers was previously a senior investment analyst with CGA, having joined in 2016. Before this, he was a portfolio manager at River Capital and a ...

First Super makes board appointment

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2017
A $2.6 billion industry superannuation fund has appointed an employee representative to its board. Joining the First Super board is Scott McDine. The appointment was effective 1 September. McDine replaces outgoing director Dave Kirner as an employee ...

Latin America: the best-kept investment secret

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2017
... presents many opportunities for investors. The alliance - comprising Colombia, Chile, Peru and Mexico - was described as a "secret well kept" by SURA Investment Management chief investment officer Juan Carlos Botero. He told delegates at the Australian ...

CBA class action moves forward

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2017
IMF Bentham today announced it will formally fund an open class action against the Commonwealth Bank relating to alleged breaches of anti-money laundering and counter terrorism financing laws. The class action will consist of shareholders who purchased ...

ASIC raises concerns over NSX listings

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 29 AUG 2017
The corporate regulator has raised a number of "concerning trends" in the way some foreign companies are admitted on the National Stock Exchange of Australia (NSX). In ASIC's review of NSX listing standards between July 2013 to August 2016, the regulator ...

Labor, FSU call for Royal Commission

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 29 AUG 2017
APRA's inquiry into the Commonwealth Bank reinforces an urgent need for a banking Royal Commission, according to Labor and the Finance Sector Union of Australia. If there are doubts about the need for a Royal Commission a year ago, there can be no doubts ...

Wealth begins its blockchain reaction

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 7 AUG 2017
... dated CHESS clearing and settlement system. "We're on six different working groups [here]," Colle says. He makes it no secret that the BNP Paribas expansion strategy is deliberate and the company is exposed to blockchain "in every way possible." Over ...

CBA faces anti-money laundering allegations

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 4 AUG 2017
The Commonwealth Bank is potentially facing millions of dollars in civil penalties following allegations it did not comply with anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism law. Financial intelligence and regulatory agency AUSTRAC has initiated Federal ...