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Revisiting the active versus passive cage fight

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 11 SEP 2017
... indexing strategies is leading to "the danger of cheap and dumb investing." He said that if "everybody moves into passive, all hell breaks loose" in the market, noting that if all passive money went into broad market cap-based indices, there wouldn't ...

Fairfax nixes private equity buyout

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 3 JUL 2017
The two private equity firms vying for Fairfax Media have withdrawn their non-binding offers. Hellman & Friedman and the TPG Group-led investor consortium were granted access to "confidential due diligence" to determine whether a binding proposal for ...

Second private equity firm joins battle for Fairfax

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAY 2017
In the battle for Fairfax Media, a new US-based bidder has entered the fray. Hellman & Friedman (H&F), established in 1984 by Lehman Brothers and Salomon Brothers executives Warren Hellman and Tully Friedman and with about $50 billion in assets under ...

Unadvised SMSFs ripe for advisers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2017
... "It's hard enough for us to interpret how things like the transfer balance cap works in proportional indexation, so how the hell are our clients supposed to understand how many of those things work as well?" Dunn asked delegates. The study also shows ...

Little pay, little spend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 FEB 2017
... much less than market expectations for a 0.4% gain. Low wages growth equals weak consumer spending equals not a chance in hell that companies would be able to raise prices at the shops equals continued low inflation/deflation. Headline inflation weakened ...

The Fed lady and the Trump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 DEC 2016
... really means it), is what's scary. He's taking on China: "Every time we get going, China and others, they just knock the hell out of the value of their currency and we have to go back and back, and it just doesn't work, folks". Yes folks, it wouldn't ...

The president is a Trump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2016
... president Bush junior didn't vote for Republican candidate Trump. With all these going against Donald, there's no chance in hell that he'll beat the highly-qualified, highly-experienced and politically-adept Hillary Clinton. Just ask all those big-time ...

Clinton or Trump or bust?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 NOV 2016
If you've placed a bet on last week's Melbourne Cup - and lost - poor you. But while "the race that stops a nation" has come and gone, we're only a few sleeps away from the race that could stop the world. Clinton and Trump's race for the White House ...

The Fed "live" in November

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2016
It seems so long ago now but at the start of October (or thereabouts), we were treated to several regional Fedspeaks -- including, among others, Cleveland Federal Reserve president Loretta Mester, Richmond Federal Reserve president Jeffrey Lacker, Kansas ...

Macquarie Infrastructure buys rail business

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2016
Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets is acquiring a 49% stake in Glencore Rail as part of a co-investment with Genesee & Wyoming Australia. The co-investment will create a $2 billion partnership with Macquarie (MIRA) having a non-controlling interest. ...