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Countplus float buoys half-year profits

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 22 FEB 2011
... equity markets and the rising Australian dollar would keep a lid on FUA growth. It has been reported that a strong Aussie dollar adversely impacts 20 per cent of the companies FUA, invested offshore. FUA on approved platforms improved on that result ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 31 JAN 2011
... cent, gold prices rising nearly two per cent. "Those commodity price gains certainly provided some support for the Aussie dollar, but late in the night we had a flaring of concerns about Egypt. "The political tension there that seems to be escalating ...

Citi sees ASX200 at 5300 in 2011

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 6 DEC 2010
... rates by another 100 basis points over the course of the year, with the cash rate rising to 5.75 per cent and the Aussie dollar finishing next year above parity at US$1.03. Citi analysts see the US S&P500 finishing 2011 at the 1300 mark, about a 10 per ...

ASX200 to hit 5,600: forecast

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 2 DEC 2010
... volatility around the rising market trend that has been in place since early 2009" he said. Cassidy said the rising Aussie dollar was a significant factor behind the local market's underperformance relative to other locations this year, as it dragged ...

Future Fund adjusts long term asset allocation strategy

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 1 NOV 2010
... holdings rose from 13.1 per cent to 18.5 per cent of the portfolio over the quarter, as a result of the surging Aussie dollar. Correction. An earlier version of this article carried incorrect long term asset allocation percentages. It has been amended ...

Rare opportunities in US real estate

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 OCT 2010
... what is on offer domestically and three times the 10 year US treasury yield. Meanwhile, the combination of a rising Aussie dollar and a soft US housing market means that from an Australian perspective, the bargains may never be as good. In contrast to ...

Rising tide lifts hedge funds in September

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2010
... performance for the US benchmark index since 1939. Notably for unhedged Australian investors, the increase in the Aussie dollar over the month would have wiped out all of these returns. According to the EDHEC figures, year to date the best performing ...

AXA IM gains more from European property

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
... and New Zealand), said another benefit of investing in overseas assets right now is the local currency. "With the Aussie dollar being so strong, there's a lot of thought locally that now is the time to go overseas, be it in equities or properties," he ...

Queuing for QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 OCT 2010
... since the start of the year against the euro, it traded at its April 1995 lows against the yen and our very own Aussie dollar managed a flitting kiss with parity against the greenback. According to reports, it briefly touched US$1.004 at 2318 hours Friday ...

Parity not quite a party

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 OCT 2010
... Australians currently lead their Commonwealth competitors with 32 gold medals, 19 silvers and 17 bronzes. But it's the Aussie dollar that's become the toast of the town, the flavour of the year (ok, just the latter quarter of 2010) and the pride of the ...