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Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2013
... NAB dropping 24 cents to $30.82 and Westpac shedding 19 cents to $31.05. "Those big four make up about a quarter of the Aussie market so it does have a big impact when we see falls in that sector," Mr Daghlian said. Telstra also was down, dropping 2.5 ...

International pension funds battle for Aussie infra

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2013
South Korean investors are likely to pour $1 billion of direct investment into Australian property and infrastructure, according to The Trust Company. The money will largely come from South Korea's National Pension Scheme, the fourth largest pension ...

Aussie super, a tempting catch for organised crime

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2013
Well-resourced and sophisticated international organised fraud networks are increasingly targeting the large pool of compulsory superannuation savings in Australia. While traditionally the greatest threat to super savings came from opportunistic individuals ...

New deal opens Europe to Aussie AIFs

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2013
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has entered a cooperation arrangement with its European Union (EU) counterparts to supervise fund managers operating across borders. The arrangement will allow Australian fund managers to manage ...

Weak tenant demand hurts Aussie property outlook

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2013
Subdued demand in a number of sectors means that Australian commercial real estate has become less attractive, according to La Salle Investment Management. While the real estate investment specialist remained positive on the Australian property market ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2013
... Markets strategist Stan Shamu said the comments pushed the US dollar lower, which was good news for risk assets, like the Aussie. "We saw the the euro rally, we saw the Aussie dollar rally and at the same time commodity prices came back to life and they ...

PIMCO expands Aussie portfolio management team

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2013
Investment firm PIMCO is expanding its Australian portfolio management team with the appointment of a new vice president of the division. Aaditya Thakur has been appointed vice president, Portfolio Manager and will be reporting to PIMCO head of Asia-Pacific ...

SSgA launches hedged international equities ETF

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2013
... unavailable or more difficult to access in the financials and resources dominated Australian market. "The value of the Aussie dollar relative to other currencies, like the US dollar, has historically been very volatile and this can have a significant ...

REST thanks overseas equities for high returns

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2013
... for the current financial year. Like Sayer, Delaney said foreign equity was the best bet, due largely to the weakening Aussie dollar, which he said added 11.8% to returns on foreign assets. REST said its MySuper product will be based on its Core Strategy ...

Is that a fiscal stimulus I smell?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2013
... crunch there over? Are commodity prices back up? Nah, the same worries over our big and closest brother are still there. Aussie equities rallied because, according to the financial presses, "the RBA has kept the door open for further interest rate cuts" ...