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Big obstacles for funds going it alone on PE

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2014
Private equity (PE) returns may be stronger than we think and while this is attracting super funds to direct their own PE investment placements, this approach is not for everybody, reveals new research from McKinsey & Company. The global management ...

Allianz launches cyber risk insurance product

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2014
Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS) has launched a cyber risk insurance product to counter the growing threat to security faced by Australian businesses. Allianz Cyber Protect has been launched to the Australian market to enable businesses to ...

China's art of currency war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2014
Sanctions? You call that sanctions? Putin must be LOL-in' after hearing the news that Europe has imposed "sanctions" by freezing the assets of 21 Russian and Crimean officials and imposing travel bans on them. The US imposed the same "sanctions" on ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2014
The Australian share market has opened flat following weak overseas leads from the US. Gains in heavyweight Australian mining stocks have been offset by falls in Telstra - which has gone ex-dividend - and fellow large companies Woodside Petroleum and ...

A-dollar zero point six six

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2014
He's either really brave or truly spaced out after smoking some heavy stuff. One thing's for sure though, Deutsche Bank's chief economist for Australia Adam Boyton has made the headlines with his fearless forecast that the Australian dollar would be ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2014
The Australian market looks set to open strongly higher after gains on Wall Street and European bourses fuelled by signs of solid business activity and stable eurozone inflation. At 0830 AEDT on Tuesday, the March share price index futures contract ...

Big fall one day, up and away the next

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2014

High frequency trading improves market fairness

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2013
High frequency traders (HFTs) improve market fairness by reducing end-of-day price dislocation, new research from the Capital Markets Cooperative Research Centre (CMCRC) has found. CMCRC examined data from 22 exchanges from around the world, from 2003-2011 ...

Governor Carney is no monkey

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2013

Nearly 50% of woman to suffer under LISC dumping

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 7 NOV 2013
Industry Super Australia (ISA) has ramped up its campaign to save the low income superannuation concession (LISC), saying scrapping Labor's plan will hurt almost one in two Australian women. The industry body also claimed that the repeal of the LISC ...