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Hockey commits cash to infra partnerships plan

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2015
Australia will provide $25 million to the World Bank Group's Global Infrastructure Facility, said Treasurer Joe Hockey in a statement. The Facility will be used to build public-private infrastructure partnerships to streamline "greater private sector ...

Super funds too small for activism

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2015
... but "it is just a matter of time before the age of activism dawns in Australia as well," Credit Suisse said. The investment bank noted in a research piece that "the behemoths of the funds management industry in Australia have not yet embraced activism ...

Northern Trust appoints former BlackRock vice president

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2015
... institutional sales manager. Appointed as sales associate is Ann-Marie Garry, who joined Northern Trust after its acquisition of Bank of Ireland Securities Services in 2011. Most recently she was sales associate for Northern Trust's asset servicing business ...

Ausbil appoints head of institutional business

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2015
Ausbil Investment Management has appointed Ross Youngman as head of institutional business. Youngman was most recently chief executive and executive chairman of Five Oceans Asset Management, following positions with Deutsche as chief executive of Deutsche ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2015
... the June share price index futures contract was down 47 points at 5,818. In local economic news on Monday, the Commonwealth Bank's Business Sales Indicator is due out. No major equities news is expected. In Australia, the market on Friday suffered its ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
... its full year production target by 200,000 tonnes after a boost in March quarter production. Among the banks, Commonwealth Bank was down 55 cents at $92.46, National Australia Bank had lost 40 cents to $38.91, ANZ had dropped 33 cents to $35.69 and Westpac ...

Larry Fink warns of bubble in income assets

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
... world's largest fund manager has warned shareholders about an ever-expanding bubble in yield-paying assets, inflated by central bank liquidity measures. In a letter to shareholders, BlackRock chief executive Laurence Fink said aggressive monetary policy ...

Big end of town to face Senate over bad advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
... deputy chief executive officer Graham Hodges and chief executive officer of global wealth Joyce Phillips. National Australia Bank (NAB) chief executive Andrew Thorburn and group executive of NAB Wealth Andrew Hagger will also face a Senate grilling ...

Risk mispricing a threat to investment: ANZ boss

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
... circumstances than purely mispricing risk," Smith said. The Bloomberg event was an opportunity for the ANZ boss to also address the bank's plans for future investment in the Asia-Pacific region. "In 2010 around 2.5% of the value of Chinese FDI [foreign ...

JPM appoints Goldman Sachs managing director

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
J.P. Morgan has announced that Paul Uren will join Grant Dempsey as co-head of global investment banking for Australia and New Zealand. Uren joins J.P. Morgan from Goldman Sachs where he was managing director and co-head of investment banking services ...