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China primed for encouraging rebound: HSBC

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2012
While global demand is likely to remain fragile, HSBC maintains its above-consensus forecast that China's 2013 GDP growth will recover to 8.6% after bottoming out in the fourth quarter of 2012. Much of HSBC's projected China rebound in 2013 and beyond ...

Prime real estate no longer attractive: LaSalle

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2012
With the upside from prime commercial real estate looking decidedly limited, investors need to widen the net if they want capital growth from their property portfolio, according to LaSalle's Paul Guest. Global risk aversion since the onset of the financial ...

Insto's ignoring climate change

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2012
... Australia's largest financial institutions, said a prominent economist. Just like during the global financial crisis, when sub-prime risk left many reeling, the investment dangers of Climate Change are now being ignored, said Dr John Hewson, chairman ...

Real estate better than bonds: UBS

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2012
... that hard-asset backing provides comfort to investors. In Europe the manager says that the best opportunities are in the prime real estate such as that available in the Swiss market, in London's trendy West End and the dependable German retail offerings. ...

Superannuation needs change: Keating

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2012
... government-run longevity insurance fund to help provide a better retirement to people who are living longer, said former Prime Minister Paul Keating. Speaking today at the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) Conference, Keating said ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2012
... Press Club, NBN chief executive Mike Quigley speaks at an American Chamber of Commerce in Australia function and former prime minister Paul Keating opens the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia conference in Sydney. OrotonGroup, Cabcharge ...

Thank you, xie xie, arigato

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2012

Property set for attractive multi-year returns: Stan Life

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2012
... Investments. "Although Australian government bonds are significantly higher than markets such as the US, UK and Germany, prime global office market yields offer a yield premium of 400 basis points on average." The strategist notes that commercial property ...

Prime industrial rents hit four year high

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2012
Prime industrial rents have returned to pre GFC levels and national capital values have reached a four year high, according to the latest Australian Industrial MarketView report from CBRE. The report highlights a continued slow recovery in the industrial ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2012
... The Nikkei in Tokyo enjoyed a third straight rally due to the yen's weakness after the front-runner to become Japan's next prime minister said he would push for unlimited monetary easing if his party won next month's general election. Tokyo climbed 1.43 ...