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VC firm launches new credit fund

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2018
... companies with strong revenue, looking to accelerate their business or wishing to diversify funding sources during capital raising rounds. Viola Credit co-founder and general partner Ruthi Simha highlighted the firm's experience, having already deployed ...

Chief economist update: Submerging markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2018
... and lift emerging markets' boats. So much so, that the US Federal Reserve's forward guidance that it would be raising the fed funds rate three times in 2018 was positively-named normalisation of monetary policy. All was well. Until Trump taketh ...

Chief economist update: Small business is big business

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2018
... wage increases in July, prompting small companies to pass on these higher costs with a net 16% (up two points from June) raising average selling prices. I leave the final comment to the NFIB: "Now the second longest expansion in history, Main Street ...

New fund to invest in "clean disruption" tech

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 14 AUG 2018
... Jade Ong and Kent Kwan. Ong worked for nine years at Macquarie Capital, working on M&A, direct asset sales, and capital raising. She was a portfolio manager for listed Aussie equities at IAG Asset Management during her five-year investment career before ...

First on the block: CBA to develop blockchain bond

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2018
... to better achieve their goal to end extreme poverty." CBA said blockchain had the potential to streamline processes for raising capital and trading securities, adding the technology could improve operational efficiencies and enhance regulatory oversight. ...

AFA gets an audience with O'Dwyer

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2018
... professional standards, however it said the approach needed to be sensible, saying the "whole process needs to be about raising standards, not about reducing adviser numbers." Separately, the association said last month the ongoing debate around the ...

Perpetual wins RE mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2018
... REIT. Perpetual's wholly-owned subsidiary is the RE of Vitalharvest Freehold Trust, which listed on the ASX on August 1, raising $185 million. Its portfolio consists of seven properties across New South Wales, Tasmania and South Australia with a combined ...

NAB looked to keep plan service fees, Royal Commission hears

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2018
... commission last week. Yesterday the Royal Commission questioned MLC's decision to stick with grandfathered arrangements, raising whether the practice was in the best interest of members.

Chief economist update: Do nothing RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2018
... optimism over Australia's economic outlook) or it could cut interest rates to give economic activity a move along. Raising interest rates now risks an A$ appreciation (not a good idea when our biggest export market - China - is in the midst of a ...

Boutique equities manager raising $4 million

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2018
A former Commsec distribution head is seeking to raise $4 million for an asset management company that will run a thematic fund. Seer Asset Management was founded by stockbroker Peter LeMessurier, former Commsec executive Steve James, and Alice LeMessurier. ...