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AMP Capital sells out of Houston residential property complex

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2013
... 'multifamily' asset - a 387 unit residential complex which is centrally located near major employment and lifestyle centres in Houston, Texas. Cheval was acquired in August 2007 for US$52.02 million due to its strong appeal to a growing population of ...

Off the cliff and into the ceiling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2013
... again beginning to worry the pants off investors from New York to Rio and old London town. Yes, we've got a problem coming Houston. It's the US debt ceiling. As President Obama warned last night, "markets could go haywire" if the US$16,400,000,000,000 ...

The pain in Spain does not fall mainly on the plain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2012
... threatens to secede from a country in a region that's desperately trying to stay as one, and what do we get? We get a problem Houston. That central banker is no other than Philly Fed president Charlie Plosser who commented yesterday that, "We are unlikely ...

Macquarie Private Bank scoops up Merrill Lynch MD

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2011
... managing directorship at Merrill Lynch, O'Neil spent three years at Credit Suisse where he headed the investment bank's Houston Office and worked as a director and regional branch manager of private banking. Eric Schimpf, head of Macquarie Private Wealth ...

It's all good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2011
Houston, it seems we've lost May. With two trading days to go this month - one for Wall Street because of the Memorial Day holiday in the US - "sell in May then go away" is in the bag - unless of course, there's a sudden whiff of euphoria, or perhaps ...

May the Fed be with you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2011
... expansion/contraction line. It remains in expansion territory. It had been here for 17 consecutive months now. Shhh, I said! Houston, this would only become a problem if the latest drop becomes trend that takes the index down, down, down to below 50. ...

USA is going A-OK

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 FEB 2011
... that US equities took this as a "downer". And why not? Because here we have the Fed boss telling all and sundry that, "Houston, we still have a problem!" Oh no! But as in true in most cases, you must take everything you read and hear with a pinch of ...

Bad news is good news is bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 OCT 2010
... if the private sector still could not find suitable investments to beat zero cash rates (or very low long-term rates), Houston we may have a problem. A mountain of money would not fix that. The problem the US finds itself where it is now is because of ...

Hastings consortium buys $290m stake in US infra

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2010
... which owns and operated a liquefied natural gas receiving and regasification terminal on the Gulf Coast of Texas near Houston. The consortium includes Hastings Funds Management's unlisted Australian funds, the Utilities Trust of Australia and The Infrastructure ...

Cosgrove and McCullagh nominated to CSC

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAY 2010
... Superannuation Corporation. Both Cosgrove and McCullagh were nominated by the chief of the Defence Force, air chief marshal Angus Houston. The appointment is subject to passage of the Governance of Australian Government Superannuation Schemes Bill 2010 ...