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Westpac trumpets infrastructure's 'annuity style' potential

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2014
... income stream, according to Westpac Group. In a submission to the Productivity Commission's Public Infrastructure Inquiry, the bank said that the infrastructure funding challenge in Australia can to a large extent be met by the $1.7 trillion-and-growing ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2014
Australian shares have bounced back from Tuesday's losses, thanks to a positive lead from Wall Street. The market is more than three-quarters of a per cent higher, which partly offsets the previous session's 1.5 per cent slide. Morgans senior private ...

Actuaries Institute names 2014 president

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2014
Daniel Smith has been named president of the Actuaries Institute for 2014 as the body announces a number of leadership changes for the New Year. Smith, who takes over from former president John Newman, will be joined by former Actuary of the Year Estelle ...

Big fall one day, up and away the next

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2014

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2014
... No major equities news is expected. In Australia, the market on Tuesday closed 1.5 per cent lower after a top US central bank official raised the prospect of ongoing reductions in the US's economic stimulus program. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index fell ...

SMSF borrowing under control, ATO figures suggest

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2014
... into limited recourse borrowing arrangements (LRBAs) was comparable to that of previous quarters, even though the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) cut the cash rate twice in 2013. While these figures only tell the story up to September, they suggest fears ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2014
Australian stocks have opened in the red following a selloff on Wall Street overnight. The local market is around half a per cent lower, which is better than futures markets had anticipated following the falls in the US, where the Dow Jones, S&P 500 ...

GPT Group bows out of CPA bidding war

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2014
... the backing last month of the Commonwealth Managed Investments Ltd's (CMIL's) independent directors and the Commonwealth Bank, which will receive $41 million for the trust's the management rights. Dexus Funds Management and CPPIB today lodged a change ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2014
... March share price index futures contract was down 41 points at 5,220. In equities news on Tuesday, the National Australia Bank releases its Quarterly Australian Consumer Anxiety Index and special report entitled Factors Impacting Cost of Living. No major ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2014
... cents to 5.22. Among the major banks, Westpac had dropped 11 cents to $32.11, ANZ had eased 10 cents to $31.46, Commonwealth Bank had dumped 45 cents at 77.15, while National Australia Bank had reversed 19 cents to $34.38. Telstra hovered at $5.26 after ...