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Citigroup shareholders reject CEO pay

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2012
... shareholder vote, mandated by the "say on pay" legislation under the Dodd-Frank Act, was taken at the firm's annual meeting in Dallas. Given absentee votes are counted as rejections, 55% of shareholders were considered to have voted against the proposed ...

Australian private wealth firm selects US property

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2012
... locked in currency swap at $1.0685. The property settled on is Cottages at Bedford located in the mid-cities area between Dallas and Fort Worth. "Texas is a strong growth corridor in a recovering US economy underwritten by oil and energy, defence, education ...

Quantum launches US residential fund

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 1 DEC 2011
... Australian dollar. Investment is focused on the foreclosure market and Quantum has begun purchasing properties in Atlanta and Dallas, which have strong rental markets. Quantum managing director Peter Gribble said the company had set up its own operation ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2011
... sales rose 33 per cent on the Monday after the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, a report by a sales tracking agency says. DALLAS - American Airlines' parent company AMR has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, as the troubled firm tries to put its ...

Nothing happened

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2011
... the piece of Fedspeak thrown in to justify the market's 'sour' mood last night. Philly Fed President Charles Plosser and Dallas Fed's Richard Fisher were quoted voicing their disagreement with the Fed's decision to keep interest rates on hold till mid-2013 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2011
... jumped as many as 164 points, or 1.3 per cent. Most of those gains evaporated later in the day after Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Richard Fisher said in a speech that the Fed had already "pressed the limits of monetary policy." The Standard ...

Two new appointments as Equiti fund closes in on first US property

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011
... high Australian dollar by buying US real estate. Toll said the fund now had its first acquisition under due diligence in Dallas, Texas. "It's over 300 apartments in a residential block," he said. Toll said the price was expected to be between $15 and ...

Same time last year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2011
... 500 ended in the red -- with investors interpreting his statement as not too dovish enough. More so when President of the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank Richard Fisher announced at an interview on CNBC that he would oppose any suggestion at QE3. I'm not ...

Let's party!

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2011
... QE2 a "dangerous gamble" and a "bargain with the devil". Philadelphia Fed President Charles Plosser, Richard Fisher of Dallas and Narayana Kocherlakota of Minneapolis were on the news just a few months ago, indicating their preference for tighter monetary ...

Invesco makes the case for global REITs

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 12 NOV 2010
... live in the most transparent, most well-followed market for listed property securities in the world," said Joe Rodriguez, Dallas-based, global REIT manager for Invesco, who manages more than $11 billion on behalf of clients. But the good news? "It's ...