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Cormann to keep up the FoFA fight

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2014
The government will continue with its quest to push through amendments to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) reforms despite last night's crushing defeat in the Senate. Finance Minister Mathias Cormann told ABC Radio this morning that the government ...

Profile: Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand chief executive Lee White

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2014
Lee White, chief executive of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand, is the first accountant to lead the body. He recently oversaw a history-making merger between the ICAA and NZICA and is now making lifelong learning a priority for accountants. ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2014
... said. "So the only thing describing us is inertia at the moment, and that inertia is a small decline on a daily basis - like water torture, really." In the resources sector at 1022 AEDT, global miner BHP Billiton dropped 19 cents to $33.06, Rio Tinto ...

Conditions and confidence collide

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2014
... Well, that is clearly surprising, is it not? Crystal. RBA Governor Glenn Stevens A may have finally made the horse drink the water of cheap funding. But whoa boy, hold your horses! While NAB says that the jump in Australian business conditions have been ...

Australian Unity adds Townsville property to healthcare fund

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2014
Australian Unity Real Estate Investment (AUREI) has added a $5.5 million property in Townsville, Queensland, to its Healthcare Property Trust. The property is an office building that AUREI is proposing to convert into a 60 bed mental health hospital. ...

AMP creates global infra platform

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2014
... utilities, adding to its existing European holdings, which include Newcastle Airport, Angel Trains, Alpha Trains, Thames Water, CLH, and Greater Gabbard OFTO. AMP Capital said the new global platform has already attracted a "significant commitment" from ...

Chocolate biscuits and animal spirits

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2014
... the other. Wish for another rate cut perhaps? But as Gov Glenn said back in August: "I've allowed the horse to come to the water with cheap funding. I can't make it drink."

Innovation to drive 2014 AFA Conference

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2014
... performance coach Paul Taylor, communication and performance expert Amanda Gore, co-founder and managing director of thankyou water Daniel Flynn and the founder of management consultancy firm Kwan, Jon Burgess. The AFA will crown this year's Adviser ...

The ECB can't make the horse drink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014
... quarter of the ECB's offer was taken up. Reminds me of RBA Governor Glenn's statement: "I've allowed the horse to come to the water with cheap funding. I can't make it drink." Some commentators put this down to the uncertainty surrounding the outcome ...

Sunrise, sunset

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014
Yesterday we found out that financial markets' worry about the Fed was too much ado about "considerable time". Any moment now, we'll get to know how the land of "Braveheart" and scotch on the rocks - Scotland - voted with regards to their divorce with ...