Rate hikes for investors unfair: PIPA

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The Property Investment Professionals of Australia (PIPA) has questioned the move by lenders to increase interest rates to both new and existing property investors, urging regulators and government to take... Read more continue reading

ASIC marks five years of listed market supervision

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ASIC has marked five years since it took over responsibility for the supervision of real-time trading on Australia’s licensed securities and derivatives markets from the Australian Securities Exchange on 1... Read more continue reading

Weekly market update – week ending July 31

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Investment markets and key developments over the past week Share markets had a mixed ride over the last week not helped by renewed weakness in Chinese shares early in the... Read more continue reading

FSC opening statement to the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties: China Australia FTA

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Introduction I thank the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties for the opportunity to appear at the public hearings into the China Australia Free Trade Agreement. For this purpose, the FSC... Read more continue reading

PM CAPITAL Global Opportunities Fund Limited announces strong full year result

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Last friday, ASX listed investment company, PM Capital Global Opportunities Fund Limited (ASX: PGF), posted its first full financial year result since listing in December 2013. Performance highlights were as... Read more continue reading

AMP Capital to invest $750m in Garden City Shopping Centre redevelopment

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AMP Capital has lodged a development application with the City of Melville for the $750 million redevelopment and expansion of Perth’s iconic Garden City Shopping Centre. Garden City is owned... Read more continue reading

Margin expansion; Term deposits slide

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Producer Prices; Private sector credit; The broad measure of business inflation – the producer price index (PPI), or final stage prices, rose by 0.3 per cent in the June quarter... Read more continue reading

Standard Life Investments appoint multi-asset directors in Asia

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Standard Life Investments, the global asset manager, today announced the appointments of two multi-asset investment specialists in Asia. Jason Yu and Dongyue Zhang have been appointed as Investment Directors within... Read more continue reading

BetaShares gears up for growth with new appointments

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BetaShares, a leading Australian manager of exchange traded funds, today announced four new staff appointments across its portfolio management, compliance, marketing and adviser services divisions, as the company gears up... Read more continue reading

Property fund receives ‘Recommended’ rating

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Research house Lonsec has upgraded the Australian Unity Property Income Fund (“Fund”) to a ‘Recommended’ rating. “The ‘Recommended’ rating indicates Lonsec has a strong conviction the financial product can generate... Read more continue reading