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It's the Fed, stupid

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... According to MarketWatch, founder and head honcho of Bridgewater Associates, Ray Dalio, expects the Fed to QE". "Never mind raising interest rates - Ray Dalio, founder of the world's largest hedge fund, is predicting that the Federal Reserve will launch ...

Put your tax return in to super

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2015
... for more than a decade and the returns could be more than $150,000, Club Plus Super said. It is a potential solution to raising the extra $130,000 A needed for a comfortable retirement as suggested by the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia ...

Should the Fed re-launch QE?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2015
Ask not when the Fed would start raising interest rates but whether the Fed should re-launch QE. Let's take a trip back to 29 July, Virginia - the day the Fed released its policy statement at the conclusion of its 28-29 July FOMC meeting - it was sliced ...

WAM Capital poised to pounce in mixed market

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2015
... shareholders invested $103.3 million through the SPP. The placement to WAM Capital Shareholders was also oversubscribed raising $90.1 million. It's expected that the additional funds will result in lower administration costs, greater liquidity for shareholders ...

Capital raising not total solution: CIFR

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2015
... despite a strong link between governance and risk-taking. Yesterday the Commonwealth Bank announced a $5 billion capital raising that will see an opportunity for eligible shareholders to buy one new share for every 23 shares they hold at a discount of ...

CBA profit tops $9 billion

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2015
... Queensland. In line with Australian Prudential Regulation Authority requirements the bank has launched a $5 billion capital raising that will see an opportunity for eligible shareholders to buy one new share for every 23 shares they hold at a discounted ...

Regulation is not the only answer: Herbert Smith Freehills

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2015
... intellectual debate. "It is very difficult to enforce formal rules against companies and those who work in them," Donald said, raising some key questions around governance: "Is financial penalty the right one to apply? Are we after deterrence, remediation ...

Five minutes of commodity sunshine?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
... the bank, more so that investors seemed to have ridden themselves of the big four banks' - ANZ, CBA, NAB, WBC - capital raising spooks of last week. Even more so that commodity prices of most variety have risen overnight. Hurrah for Aussie miners! This ...

September -- morn or mourn?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2015
... went bust in 2000. It went from 459.27 points in 1995 to a high of 1,500.59 - a 227% surge... and this despite the Fed raising rates from 4.75% to 6.5% between 1999 and 2000. By the by, the Fed raised interest rates in quick succession from 1.0% in 2004 ...

Independent dealers in M&A mode

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2015
... said. Advice scandals, he continued, have also forced institutions to significantly increase their compliance activity, raising costs and making further expansion in the wealth management space unattractive: "There's never been such a hypersensitivity ...