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MillhouseIAG buys Huntley

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2008
Homegrown private equity fund manager MillhouseIAG Ltd has snapped up boutique fund manager the Huntley Group, enabling the firm to expand its international fund management business. MillhouseIAG founder and chief executive David Millhouse said the ...

Retail profits, currency price cuts and ag-flation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2008
... (ACCI) in a statement last week asked the government to lower personal tax rates which surely would only put more fuel on the fire in an environment where retailer Harvey Norman just declared a 70 per cent lift in half year profits driven by insatiable ...

Property back to fair value

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2008
... of those securities into Australian-centric real estate would arguably be a case of leaping "from the frying pan into the fire". "What we're concerned about is rising cap rates or falling asset values in Australia across the board - commercial, retail ...

Deadly Trojan targets 400 banks

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2008
Imagine logging in to your bank account online, making a transaction, then finding out that you've just given your details - and funds - to a nameless hacker. Now imagine the Trojan targeting the users of 400 banks worldwide, including several institutions ...

Fundies find a loophole in money laundering law

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2007
... monitoring and reporting obligations before. In terms of time and effort it has been bigger than Y2K." Austrac has been under fire for most of this year for not being staffed adequately and not being ready to meet its obligations as a regulator. A source ...

Internet threat gets mobile

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2007
Financial institutions need to understand that the use of USB memory sticks could lead to information leakage and increases the risk of employees inadvertently downloading malware onto their systems, according Larry Bridwell, vice president global security ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2007
The Australian stock market has received a mixed lead from overnight trading overseas, buoyed by oil, gold and other precious metals which surged, but weighed by a weak lead from Wall Street securities. At 0830 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the ...

NZ Super Fund defends Myanmar investment

The New Zealand Superannuation Fund has come under fire from local non-government organisations (NGOs) for its shareholdings in Total S.A., a French oil company with operations in Myanmar. But the guardians of New Zealand superannuation chief executive ...

The long hot summer

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2007
... frequent, particularly in the south-west with a likely increase in evaporation rates, particularly in the north and east. High-fire-danger weather will probably increase in the south-east while tropical cyclones are likely to become more intense and ...

Franklin Templeton appoints real estate exec

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2007
... appointment is material to the group's Melbourne subsidiary which launched the Franklin International Real Estate Fund 3 (FIRE Fund 3) in July, a fund that gives Australian institutional investors access to global private real estate.