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Australian stocks open lower on China concerns

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2015
The Australian share market has opened lower after sharp falls in commodity prices on concern about China's turbulent stock market. Iron ore fell 4.6 per cent to $49.70 US a tonne overnight, close to April's 10-year low of $46.70. Nickel fell nine per ...

Challenger enters strategic partnership with Janus

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2015
... distribution." Kapstream is an $8.7 billion global fixed income manager, established by PIMCO Asia-Pacific veterans Kumar Palghat and Nick Maroutsos with Challenger's funding in Australia in 2007. The founders already had a relationship with Gross via ...

North American sovereigns hardest hit by oil crisis

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2015
... differing levels of oil exposure and "governance, risk and liquidity management factors." Invesco global sovereign group chair Nick Tolchard commented: "The timing of the fall in oil prices has been particularly challenging for state governments in North ...

Widen access to PLS, say cross-bench senators

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2015
Senators Jacqui Lambie, Glenn Lazarus, Ricky Muir and Nick Xenophon have called on the government and opposition to back legislation to broaden access to the Pension Loan Scheme (PLS). The PLS, established by the Hawke government in 1983, is a reverse ...

Property groups looking through the schooner glass

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
... from Woolworths' subsidiaries reportedly increasing to 22%. At the Charter Hall media briefing, head of investor relations Nick Kelly did not rule out future purchases of hospitality groups with the sector performing well against retail supermarkets ...

FEATURE: Australia's other love affair

FINANCIAL STANDARD  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... cities, means large institutions are looking offshore to diversify. According to TIAA Henderson Real Estate head of Australia Nick Evans01, this is happening for a number of reasons. "It's definitely challenging to source and originate domestic acquisitions ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
... from recent opinion polls, today's general election is likely to be the closest for at least a generation," said analyst Nick Stamenkovic at RIA Capital Markets. HONG KONG - Asian shares have fallen after Wall Street lost ground in the middle of the ...

Advice industry faces insurance quandary

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2015
... compensate clients who receive bad advice. A rise in professional indemnity premiums is only compounding the problem. Senators Nick Xenophon and Sam Dastyari proposed a statutory financial advice victim insurance scheme at the Senate Economics References ...

Overseas investors flocking to Australian bonds

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2015
... prices are lower," Miller said. At a separate briefing J.P. Morgan global fixed income international chief investment officer, Nick Gartside, also weighed in on Aussie bonds. "Australia is unique in financial markets because it's had 25 years of uninterrupted ...

NAB to take "leading role" in advice remediation

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2015
... gap for victims of poor financial advice. NAB advice client Veronica Coulston was raised as a specific example by Senator Nick Xenophon, who said that she had been "short-changed" by NAB's compensation process. Thorburn said that NAB would be "revisiting" ...