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NAB to float US subsidiary

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2014
National Australia Bank will float its US subsidiary Great Western Bank as it looks to focus on its core Australian and New Zealand operations. NAB expects to sell a minority stake in Great Western Bank through an initial public offering during the ...

Movers and shakers

... Eck's Melbourne office and will be responsible for driving business development business in Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia. Marinas previously worked as a regional investment specialist with ANZ Global Wealth. Henry Mortlock will be ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2014
... stock markets have rebounded sharply as traders breath a sigh of relief over easing tensions in east Ukraine and gains by Western-backed forces in Iraq. Frankfurt's main DAX index added 1.68 per cent to end Monday at 9,245.33. London's benchmark FTSE ...

Giving through PAFs back to pre-crisis level

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2014
... (37.2% versus 34.2%). New South Wales residents are the most generous, donating an average of $575 per donor, followed by Western Australians $507 and Victorians $498, with Queenslanders the least generous donating $367 in the year to 30 June 2012. Welfare ...

Van Eck Global expands Australia team

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2014
... Eck's Melbourne office and will be responsible for driving business development business in Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia. Marinas previously worked as a regional investment specialist with ANZ Global Wealth. Henry Mortlock will be ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014
... Mark Barnaba, NAB chairman Michael Chaney and Perth Lord Mayor Lisa Scaffidi will speak at a CEDA event on the future of Western Australia in Perth. In Australia, the market on Tuesday enjoyed its strongest session in more than five weeks as investors ...

US/EU v Russia's lose-lose is China's win-win

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014
... started climbing again after September 11, 2001). In Europe, http://www.notre-europe.eu/ noted that, "...whilst on average western European countries spent 3.1% of their Gross Domestic Product on defence between 1985 and 1989, this figure had fallen ...

Australia at heart of new Asia-centric world order

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
... and unstoppable." Driving the change, Mahbubani explained, is the fact that Asia has "woken up" to the seven pillars of Western wisdom which include free market economics, science and technology, pragmatism, a culture of meritocracy, a culture of peace ...

Folkestone acquires land for planned community

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2014
... medium density development." Truganina is located approximately 20 kilometres west of the Melbourne CBD in Melbourne's Western Growth Corridor. "The Truganina Project provides exposure to the fast growing western corridor of Melbourne. We believe the ...

Chumbawamba rules

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2014
... reports that Azerbaijan is "the former Soviet Union's third-largest oil producer and the only route for Caspian energy to western markets that bypasses Russia" while as per Reuters, the country is "host to oil majors including BP, Chevron and ExxonMobil". ...