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Macquarie inaugurates pioneer German traffic project

The Macquarie Infrastructure Group (MIG) has today advised that the Warnow Tunnel in Rostock, Germany...

Perpetual launches multi-manager retail platform

Perpetual Investments has unveiled a new multi-manager retail platform that offers financial advisers and their clients over 50 single manager and multi-manager funds across six different investment categories...

FOMC to meet next week, unlikely to change interest rates: ICAP

The meeting next Tuesday by the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) will look to reassess the outlook for the US economy and adjust interest rates...

ASIC details licensing exemptions for foreign service providers

ASIC today released guidelines setting out its approach to exempting foreign providers of wholesale financial products from Australian financial licensing requirements...

S&P maintains BankWest credit rating

Standard & Poor's said today that it affirmed it’s A long-term counterparty credit rating on the Bank of Western Australia Ltd and removed it from CreditWatch with positive implications...

Australia's current unemployment rate compares favourably with OECD average

Australia’s current unemployment rate, announced at a 13-year low 5.8 per cent yesterday by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)...

S&P issues new Australian fund ratings

Research group Standard & Poor’s has released ratings of a further 11 funds, managing Australian and global equities and Australian listed property.

Westpac withdraws from Bank of New Zealand sales process

Westpac Bank has today announced that it will not be proceeding with the National Bank of New Zealand sales process...

Morning market wrap: US stocks close higher

US stocks crept higher overnight, shrugging off news of a further rise in initial claims for unemployment benefits last week

New identity for AMP Henderson Global Investors

AMP Henderson Global Investors (HGI), the troubled insurer’s funds management division, today announced it will be renamed AMP Capital Investors.