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Fixed interest still tops cash: Zenith

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2007
Despite high interest rates and corresponding poor bond yields, fixed interest funds are still a better option than cash, according to a new Zenith report. The 2007 Fixed Interest Sector Review found while investors had become increasingly concerned ...

Killer inflation - three fatalities

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2007
... doors opened at 8.30 am and were crushed by hundreds of stampeding shoppers behind them. Leaving the door open for more interest rate rises, in this morning's Statement on Monetary Policy the Reserve Bank of Australia raised its inflation forecasts for ...

Low frills, high returns

... business. Instead, their investment strategy is fairly simple: out of 200 Australian stocks, pick the ones with strong interest cover, for example, and out of those stocks, pick the top 40 based on five-year risk adjusted total returns and cashflow profile. ...

Portfolio Partners predicts 30-year resources boom

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2007
... resources boom to the 1980s bubble and warned investors to diversify as a result. Portfolio Partners has also launched a new Interest Rate Opportunity Fund, which will trade interest rate futures contracts on the ASX and Sydney Futures Exchange. The ...

Big boys leaving Australian property

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2007
Institutional players are dropping their allocations to Australian property to as little as 11 per cent as they chase more and more international property, according to Ambassador Funds Management partner Richard Darke. Darke said some institutional ...

Sub-prime chewing up financials

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2007
... still suffering a sub-prime-mauling, dragging shares down 18 per cent this year, prompting the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates and accelerating a sell-off in the US currency. Persistent rumours over potential billion dollar write-downs by Goldman ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2007
... Sundance Energy Australia Ltd will hold its AGM in Adelaide. The Australian share market shrugged off an increase in interest rates by Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) yesterday and closed in positive territory boosted by the big miners. Official cash ...

ASF to overhaul issuer disclosure

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2007
The securitisation market's peak body, the Australian Securitisation Forum, will rewrite disclosure standards for issuers of mortgage backed and asset backed securities in a bid to improve the marketability of local issuance in the global credit market. ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2007
... Markets dealer Matt Wacher said the banking sector was feeling the Reserve Bank of Australia's decision today to raise interest rates, but the rest of the market was strong. Mr Wacher said strong performers this morning included Woodside Petroleum on ...

Mortgage stress hits record levels

... households are at risk of defaulting on their mortgages or selling their property within the next six months following today's interest rate rise. Fujitsu Consulting has updated its Mortgage Stress-O-Meter, which monitors the ability of individuals to ...