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Future Fund to buy airport assets

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2012
A suite of minority investments in airports in Australia and Europe has been picked up by the Future Fund under a new agreement. In a statement released today the Future Fund's board of guardians said it had agreed to buy all the assets in the Australian ...

Low-volatility post-retirement solutions needed: Bell

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2012
... Having concluded that too few investors will have sufficient capital to drive income in retirement, David Bell of St Davids Road Advisory expects to see growing interest in low-volatility, post-retirement solutions. Speaking at yesterday's Investment ...

Light-years before Macquarie and YBR bother banks

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012
The latest tie-up between Yellow Brick Road and Macquarie to launch mortgage products makes sense for both businesses, but it will be a long time before they can begin to turn the proposition into a profitable enterprise, according to Lincoln Indicator's ...

Western recovery expected to lift Asian stocks

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2012
Hope of recovery in the developed world, improvements in China and Gillard rhetoric around the 'Asian century', have combined to create a golden opportunity for investment in Asia, according to Certitude's Craig Mowll. Mowll, chief executive of the ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2012
... flat at $3.43 Consolidated Media Holdings scheme meeting to vote on sale of Foxtel holding to News Corporation CTY - COUNTRY ROAD LTD - flat at $3.25 Country Road annual general meeting CWN - CROWN LTD - up 14 cents, or 1.49 per cent, at $9.52 Billionaire ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2012
... Commerce in Australia lunch on From Boomer to Busted: Will Longer Life Expectancies Finish What the GFC Started. Country Road, JB HiFi, Tabcorp Holdings, Centro Retail Australia, Bega Cheese, Fantastic Holdings and Tassal Group hold annual general meetings ...

Dean Lombardo wins AFA Excellence in Education Award

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2012
... demonstrated the AFA's ongoing commitment to education. "The AFA believes that education is a journey, our members are always on the road to further education and this award is about recognising those (advisers) who have shown outstanding commitment ...

Government should act fast on Johnson Report: FSC

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2012
If the Federal Government is serious about exporting financial services to Asia, it must implement all the recommendations in the Johnson Report by 2013, said the Financial Services Council. "The Johnson Report is a practical plan that will open up ...

Not long now

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012
... elections are over, it'll remove another uncertainty (policy and regulatory) that's clouding investors' visibility of the road ahead.

Quality could replace China volume-play

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2012
... he said that there was difficulty attracting business talent away from the economic beacon of Shanghai, "but now with the road, and the rail lines, it is getting better." Housed in a factory in Taicang, are high-end machines owned by German component ...