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Instos cool on direct infrastructure

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2009
Global institutional investors are snubbing direct infrastructure projects and fund-of-fund strategies for distressed assets, private equity and hedge funds in the next 12 to 24 months, according to a survey. The Alternative Investment Summit Industry ...

Fanning the flames of fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2009
... seems that after more than a year and a half of the global financial crisis, trillions in bail-out money, record low interest rates and government guarantees, many still harp about how bad things are and could get. You and I and our dogs are aware of ...

Planners tune in to ETFs

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2009
... ETFs abound, investors are able to access products that they can use to hedge currencies, short the market and fixed interest among others, he said. "The good news for fee-based advisers and their clients is that over time, more and more of these US ...

Clients duck for income cover

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2009
Australians are taking out income protection in droves as uncertainty from the economic slowdown hits home. Professional Investment Services managing director Grahame Evans said figures from the latest Risk Distribution Monitor Survey showed the level ...

Let them have soup

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2009
... is heightened fears over Europe's future after the Bank of England (BoE) and the European Central Bank (ECB) each cut interest rates by 50 basis points to record lows of 0.5 per cent and 1.5 per cent, respectively. The realisation that even the central ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2009
... open lower with US and European markets falling heavily on more negative economic news and uncertainty over aggressive interest rate cuts in Britain. At 0820 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures index was down 50 points at 3,119. ...

AUI opens unlisted property fund

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2009
... the fund manager is able to negotiate better terms and agreements, said Martin Hession, AUI head of property. "A low interest rate environment opens up a number of opportunities for property owners which can not only boost a fund's income returns but ...

Chinese medicine

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2009
... and one excuses to sell. Australia - with one foot inside the grave of a technical recession - has a particular vested interest in seeing China succeeding in reviving its economy. But the Chinese medicine that is expected to be applied - no matter how ...

CORRECTION: Snowball expands corp super

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2009
... and consultancies that will go in there and look after the employers interests but they won't look after the employees' interest because they don't have the infrastructure to do it. We feel we can deliver that side as well," he said. Snowball Group has ...

Thank you RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2009
... that the global equity markets suffered another anxiety attack. Yes Virginia, the RBA did nothing. That is nothing on interest rates but it surely did something more important - it shored up market confidence. Australian equity investors braced themselves ...