Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 641 - 650 of 688 results for "AL Capital"

Property syndicate closes fully subscribed in just 5 days

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUL 2006
Residential property funds management is starting to emerge as a high-end investment opportunity with the latest syndicate closing fully subscribed within a week. A residential property syndicate offered by Land developer Peet & Company is the latest ...

True high conviction means big positions: Peters MacGregor

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUN 2006
Define high conviction. To Peters MacGregor it means holding just eight stocks but backing your positions with more than 60 per cent of your total capital. Peters MacGregor chief executive officer, James Craigie, explained that to his team a high conviction ...

Weekly economic round-up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 JUN 2006
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will meet again tomorrow to deliberate on domestic monetary policy settings. Financial markets expect the RBA not to immediately follow-up last month's 25-basis point rate hike, which took the official cash rate to ...

Director pleads guilty to ASIC allegations

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAY 2006
A former director of Endeavour Funds Management Limited has pleaded guilty to charges of fraudulent behaviour. Scott Daniel Tracy was found to have acted improperly between 8 April 2004 and 24 April 2004 while undertaking his duties as director of the ...

MillhouseIAG brings private equity to retail

Private equity fund manager MillhouseIAG is using its international private equity clout to bring the best deals to retail investors at home. MillhouseIAG is a Brisbane-based fund manager with operations in Singapore, Germany and the US. It was started ...

Commonwealth banks on customer service and IT

The Commonwealth Bank has unveiled a four-pronged corporate strategy that includes merging two key units, improving IT and offering flexible employment in a bid to remain one of the country's leading banks. Commonwealth's chief executive officer, Ralph ...

ASX and SFE to merge

The Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) and the SFE Corporation Limited (SFE) has announced that the merger is to go ahead, which is set to create the ninth largest listed exchange group in the world. In what marks a turning point in the country's stock ...

Weekly economic round-up

Last week's Australian data releases continued to paint a picture of a domestic economy that is growing moderately with little pressure on inflation and, therefore, no impetus for the official cash rate to move one way or the other. The Australian Bureau ...

Daily economic update

Business investment continues to drive the Australian economy forward. This is established by today's Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) report showing that real capital spending increased by a much larger-than-expected 9.2 per cent in the December ...

NAB hands Asian life insurance to AXA

In a deal worth more than half a billion dollars, National Australia Bank (NAB) will divest its MLC life insurance businesses in Hong Kong and Indonesia to AXA Asia Pacific Holdings (AXA APH). The $575 million sell-off is part of NAB's ongoing business ...