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Challenger to open redemptions on mortgage fund

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 SEP 2010
Challenger's Howard Mortgage Fund proposes to make $850 million of funds available for investor redemptions by Christmas, as part of a major restructuring to improve returns and liquidity. In a statement, Challenger said it will ask all its mortgage ...

Happy days

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 SEP 2010
Three cheers for September! Hip, hip! Where's the September curse everybody and his dog were warning about at the onset of the seventh moon of the year? Thirteen days into this "most awful month" for stocks and so far Wall Street has advanced in eight ...

China not heading for a property bust

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2010
Talks of a property bubble in China are overstated as the Chinese government has introduced new home ownership and lending rules to cool the market, said an investment expert. "I don't think we have a bubble yet," said Samantha Ho, investment director ...

Banks to raise capital reserves

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2010
Landmark reforms will force global banks to raise their minimum capital requirements by at least double what they are today to avert another financial crisis - but the new rules, if adopted, could damage the smaller institutions. Bank regulators and ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 SEP 2010
... flat at noon, with investors cautious ahead of an interest rate announcement and an indication on which political party will rule. At 1200 AEDT the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 6.6 points, or 0.14 per cent, at 4,582.1, while the broader All Ordinaries ...

Realindex tops $2bn in FUM

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 6 SEP 2010
Realindex, a Colonial First State subsidiary, announced it has surpassed $2 billion in funds under management, barely two years after launching. Andrew Francis, the company's chief executive, told Financial Standard that a recent Australian equities ...

India funds in short supply

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 SEP 2010
... greater extent than India, simply because of Australia's export relationship with the middle Kingdom. Keenan said he could not rule out an India-specific ETF in the future but that the idea is not high on the list. Keenan said Australian investors tend ...

Fearing September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 SEP 2010
... to scare you. Yes, the historical stats may provide overwhelming evidence of a poor September outcome. But as with every rule, there are exceptions. Do you still remember September 2009? It seems so long ago now, doesn't it? The S&P 500 index produced ...

Avoid high yield traps: State Street

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 16 AUG 2010
According to the report, investors should be cautious when looking to add stocks with misleadingly high dividend yields to their portfolios, as the higher yield is often a result of significant price declines rather than increases in dividends paid. ...

Trustees warned as APRA toughens guidances

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 AUG 2010
With the ink hardly dry on the Cooper Report's recommendations for a Trustee Code of Practice, the prudential regulator APRA has released revised trustee guidances on capital structures, risk management, resources adequacy and trustee fitness. Following ...