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New hope for DomaCom Kidman bid

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2016
... Naoumidis said the announcement endorsed by Treasurer Scott Morrison reflects a reality "that there is genuine public interest in keeping the iconic Kidman pastoral station in Australian hands." Naoumidis said when the property fund manager entered the ...

Who can dig a deeper hole?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2016
... where savers who pay the bank to hold their cash courtesy of negative deposit rates, are directly funding the negative interest rate paid to those who wish to take out debt. The article (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-01-30/denmark-you-are-now-paid-take-out-mortgage) ...

Impact investor calls on super fund VC

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2016
Impact investor Trimantium Capital expects to deploy about $700 million in venture capital by the end of 2016, working with several Australian superannuation funds in the process. Trimantium Capital managing director Phillip Kingston and US-based co-chairman ...

LIF expected before parliament this week

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2016
The Life Insurance Framework is expected to be put to the House of Representatives by Assistant Treasurer Kelly O'Dwyer this week. The government released exposure draft legislation in December 2015, based on the framework, which O'Dwyer said at the ...

Yellen fedspeaks her mind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2016
... prove persistent, could weigh on the outlook for economic activity and the labor market, although declines in longer-term interest rates and oil prices provide some offset." Same old, same old assessment naturally gets the same old, same old hand over ...

Equity Trustees creates senior philanthropy role

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2016
... was a senior research and evaluation advisor for child protection. She was also an evaluation consultant for the Public Interest Law Clearing House in Victoria, a research fellow at the Turning Point Alcohol and Drug Centre, a strategic adviser for the ...

Parametric exploring super smart beta

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2016
... superannuation funds has been toiling with passive and smart beta strategies over the past year on the back of renewed interest. Such is the interest that Parametric Australia expects to double its assets under management from $3 billion to $6 billion ...

AMP Capital adds infra fund to SMSF suite

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2016
Growing investment interest from self-managed superannuation fund trustees has led AMP Capital to offer the Core Infrastrcuture Fund to its SMSF suite. A fund usually available to large institutional investors, the AMP Capital Core Infrastructure Fund ...

Small not feeling beautiful

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2016
While continued US labour market strength supports the Fed's decision to lift interest rates back in December and its forecasts for more lifts this year, weakening activity indicators released since - not to mention still below target inflation - indicate ...

Alternatives drove Permal and EnTrust marriage

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2016
... without risk and sensitivity to energy prices. "Private debt seems to come in and really fill a gap. It doesn't have interest rate risk because it is typically linked to short-term rates. It has very attractive yields, single digit. The only thing it ...