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FEATURE: Defending wealth

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2015
... global financial institutions were intervened by governments, others collapsed. Quantitative easing (QE) started in the United States, while the rest of the world braced against unemployment and negative growth. While Australia managed to escape the ...

Australian stock market to open lower

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2015
... Bloomberg reported. Airlines tumbled, including American Airlines (-4.5 per cent), Delta Air Lines (-5.0 per cent) and United Continental (-4.4 per cent) due to worries about rising capacity and slow US economic growth. The three major carriers were ...

Winter of our discontent

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2015
... is starting to move its way. The wish and hope and prayer is for a bounce in the second quarter, most especially in the United States. This would keep the Fed lift-off in play and push the dollar-A lower. But the same strength in the US dollar could ...

FoFA among top 20 global regulatory nightmares

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2015
... regulatory changes such as the Basel III rules that will require banks to hold more capital, or the Volcker Rule in the United States that limits the bank's relationships with hedge funds and private equity funds to prevent them from making speculative ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2015
... Schaeuble has invited his counterparts and their central bank chiefs from Britain, Canada, France, Italy, Japan and the United States, for the gathering that kicks off later on Wednesday. Meantime, markets were attentive to reports quoting Greek government ...

Old families make way for self-made billionaires

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2015
... 23% launched their first business venture before the age of 30 and that a total of 68% did so before turning 40. In the United States, the top sector for self-made billionaires was financial services (30%), with the average wealth at $4.5 billion. Asian ...

BNY Mellon to provide ESG insights

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
... securities issuers. In response to growing ESG concerns in its investor-base, and the growing number of signatories in the United Nations' Principles for Responsible Investment Initiative, BNY's Depositary Receipts arm will give clients access to Sustainalytics' ...

US golden opportunity for listed infrastructure

ALEX BURKE, LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
... launched a prospectus for a global infrastructure listed investment company that will be managed by Cohen&Steers from the United States. Cohen&Steers senior vice president Benjamin Morton argued: "There are only 10 to 15 infrastructure companies in Australia. ...

PROFILE: PM Capital CIO Paul Moore

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
... first shares in Blue Metal Industries (later taken over by Boral) while he was still at school and then bought Carlton & United Breweries while studying his Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) degree, at the University of New South Wales. Remarkably, he has ...

QIC inks $1bn infrastructure deal with CalPERS

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
... partnership with the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), one of the largest public pension funds in the United States. Under the terms of the arrangement, QIC will source, create and manage a portfolio of Asia-Pacific infrastructure ...