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Global advice group becomes investment bank

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAR 2017
... the company establishing its own private bank, the deVere Group Bank St Lucia, in February. DeVere chief executive Nigel Green said he was thrilled the firm could now commence investment banking operations, explaining the decision to set up shop in Mauritius ...

South Korean pension fund buys Brisbane property

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAR 2017
... Sydney and Melbourne. AXA Investment Managers' property investment arm, Eureka Real Assets, acquired the Brisbane building Green Square South Tower. AXA Investment Managers is building its footprint in the Asia-Pacific region after it acquired Sydney-based ...

NAB launches offshore green bond

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAR 2017
Answering to strong investor demand, National Australia Bank launched a public offshore green bond valued at €500 million ($690 million). Reported as the first of its kind issued by an Australian bank and the biggest green bond from an Australian ...

Professional standards spark SAFAA training

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 23 FEB 2017
... professional compliance and regulatory training," GRC Solutions managing director Julian Fenwick said. SAFAA chief executive Andrew Green said: "We already provide education and training that sets the benchmark in the financial services industry. This ...

Queensland Treasury issues green bonds

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2017
Queensland is boosting investment in environmentally responsible projects through green bonds issued via the state's Treasury. Treasurer and Minister for Trade and Investment, Curtis Pitt, said the Queensland Treasury Corporation planned to issue certified ...

Industry giant retires

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2017
Celebrated financial services figure Barry Lambert is retiring from the Class board of directors. Lambert, aged 70, said he is retiring to concentrate on campaign work for greenlight.support, an advocacy group which lobbies for patients to have access ...

QIC closes renewable energy fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2017
The Powering Australian Renewables Fund, on behalf of the QIC Global Infrastructure Fund and the Future Fund, has reached financial close on the Silverton Wind Farm. QIC announced it had achieved the $450 million required to fund the development of ...

A-dollar rising

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 JAN 2017
Aussie! Aussie! Aussie! Oi! Oi! Oi! Australia's legal tender is again doing the rounds of the headlines. Disappointment over Trump's press conference last week - he talked and talked about everything except about his economic policies - brought the ...

Sun rising in Japan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 JAN 2017
The sun appears to be rising in the Land of the Rising Sun. Japanese consumer confidence rose to a reading of 43.1 in December from 40.9 in the previous month supported by a rally in the stock market and the yen's depreciation versus the US dollar. ...

MYEFO: Surplus of promises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 DEC 2016
... fiscal largesse - tax cuts and infrastructure building and rebuilding - on the US economy...one that also gave the Fed the green light to proceed with normalisation. What about the credit-rating agencies? Yes, them who threatened to slice Australia's ...