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Surprise tapering delay boosts Australian shares

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2013
... Forster, chief executive of Principal Global Investors, said that the Fed's decision will put on hold the move towards short yield in fixed income. "Many people have been talking about reducing duration in order to prepare for a perceived rise in long-term ...

Retirees see silver lining of slowing mining boom

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2013
... medium term, this will be good news for fund managers such as Plato and Tyndall, which offer equities products that optimise yield for low- and no-tax investors. Newcomers to the tax effective equities space, such as AMP Capital with its soon-to-be-launched ...

Friday the 13th spook

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2013

New AllianceBernstein fund offers solution for Fed tapering

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 12 SEP 2013
... Dynamic Global Fixed Income Fund is free to invest across the credit spectrum from the safest sovereign bonds to riskier high yield credit in both developed and emerging markets. It aims to achieve a return of at least 200 basis points above the UBS ...

EM correction, it's different this time

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2013
Despite the recent shake out in emerging markets due to the rebounding USD, the stronger ones are positioned fundamentally differently to how they were in 1997 and should absorb this latest correction. US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke repeatedly ...

Telstra Super lures members with SMSF lookalike

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2013
... financial year, compared to 16% the year before. "I think we are seeing SMSFs pulling out cash and looking to get better yield," he said. If this is true, Telstra's direct share investment option may be more in keeping with current trends, and may function ...

OMTs - one year on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2013
It's all about China.A It's not landing hard.A It's stabilising. That's what you'll read in most finance headlines this morning Virginia as the main pusher of positive sentiment in Asian equity markets yesterday and Wall Street overnight. Europe closed ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2013
The Australian market looks set to open higher on the first day following the federal election and after disappointing US jobs data prompted little change on Wall Street at the end of the week. The US Labor Department said the world's biggest economy ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2013
The Australian share market looks set to open slightly higher after Wall Street rose on encouraging US employment data. At 0740 AEST on Friday, the September share price index futures contract was up nine points at 5,147. In economic news on Friday ...

Trophy infrastructure assets too expensive

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2013
Large, marquee infrastructure assets seem over-priced in the face of the huge sums high profile institutions have paid in recent years, according to Towers Watson senior investment consultant Duncan Hale. Large global investors have raced to buy infrastructure ...