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SMSFs could own Kidman Station

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2015
... It represents 2.5% of Australia's total agricultural land. It is spread across Queensland, the Northern Territory and Western Australia and is home to 185,000 cattle. At 101,000 square kilometres, it is larger than Ireland and almost half the size of ...

Whitehelm Capital acquires 49% stake in GE business

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2015
... retain a 50.1% stake in the business. It generates steam and electricity and was commissioned in January 2014 in Collie, Western Australia. It has a contractual arrangement with South32 Limited's Worsley Refinery. "While many managers have been focusing ...

Pension funds globally face solvency issues

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2015
... that "will last longer than most of you in the room will live," the emerging markets are investing at double the pace of western countries. He said this over-investment is creating mass excess capacity in the world economy which is one of the reasons ...

PROFILE: Blue Sky managing director Mark Sowerby

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2015
... alternative asset requires a different culture and a different mindset," Sowerby says. Originally from Warren, a small town in western New South Wales, it made sense after growing up on his parents' cotton farm for Sowerby to study Agricultural Science. ...

Towers Watson wins public sector fund mandate

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
... Graeme Miller, said the firm considered it a privilege to be appointed. "As the largest public offer superannuation fund in Western Australia and one whose approach is focused on making a real difference to the lives of its members in retirement, there ...

Aussies in top five for cashless transactions

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2015
... cashless payments are forecasted to grow by 9% to 389.7 billion transactions in 2014. The report highlights that while mature western markets continue to lead the way in non-cash payments, emerging Asia is experiencing rapid growth of 27% year on year ...

Australian Unity strengthens Diversified Property Fund

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2015
... 30% industrial, 33% retail and 37% office property, with assets spread across New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria and Western Australia. For the year to 30 June 2016, the Fund is forecasting a distribution range of between eight and 8.3%. Since taking ...

BlackRock adds to distribution team

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2015
... portfolios," said Langlands. Team members James Biggins and Leila Romanos will support McDermott in looking after clients in Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania.

PIMCO launches bank capital fund

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2015
... Philippe Bodereau, managing director and portfolio manager of the PIMCO Capital Securities Fund based in London said, "Many Western banks are now operating at record high levels of capital and these improving fundamentals are positive for capital securities." ...

CIO says low bond market rates to continue

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2015
Western Asset Management chief investment officer Ken Leech believes the bond market will have reasonably low rates for longer than market participants thought at the beginning of 2015. Leech said the normalising of interest rates by the US Federal ...