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Super fund fortunes shift on FX exposure

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2013
... time," Hampton said. "Nonetheless, there is some agreement about the broad currency trends; 67% of respondents expect the AUD/USD to fall from current levels, although 77% believe it's not in a new, higher trading range." The timing of NAB's survey was ...

Monster super funds tipped to invest in London property

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUL 2013

Super set for best year since 2007

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2013
... look lackluster with returns of 4% and 7%. A driving force behind the returns surge has been the 12% fall AUD relative to the USD since April. Three year fund returns to end May 2013 are 7.6% pa and 10 year returns are 6.7% pa. Even the five year returns ...

BNP Paribas launches dealing services in Australia

LAURA MILLAN, MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2013
... allows clients to keep their existing broker panel," Jond finished. BNP Paribas Securities is a global custodian with over USD$7 trillion assets under custody.

Non-bank lender completes public securitisation

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012
... associate director securitisation, National Australia Bank Limited. "Since 2010, six Aussie RMBS transactions have included USD tranches for a total of $1.9 billion and we expect this trend to continue," she said.

NZ Super fund breaks $20bn

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 18 OCT 2012
... horizon and exploit the market's current risk aversion." The annual report shows a number of new positions, most notably a USD$100 million investment in a Chinese infrastructure fund, the purchase of a 1/3 share in Christchurch-headquartered Scales Corporation ...

Australia leads in global median wealth

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2012
... wealth by 2017. Locally, the report found wealth in Australia fell significantly by 9.4% from US$6.4 trillion in mid-2011 to USD 5.8 trillion in mid-2012. Releasing the report, Francesco de Ferrari, Head of Private Banking Asia Pacific, Credit Suisse ...

IOSCO recommends reforms to the $4.7tr MMF sector

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2012
... banking sector". The sector is so crucial because 90% of MMFs are domiciled in the US and Europe, they hold an estimated 40% of USD denominated financial paper and about one-third of dollar denominated negotiable certificates of deposit. But while they ...

Fund managers bullish on Asian bonds

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
... pushing institutional investors towards more hard currency debt. "When you invest in emerging market or Asian debt from a USD point of view, you're not taking on currency risk as much as you are by investing in local currency," Pidgeon said. "Typically ...

China slowdown hits rich list

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2012
China's 2012 Rich List released by the Hurun Report this week showed that for the first time since 2005 the number of USD-value billionaires in the country has declined, dropping by 20 over the past year to number 251. In another interesting indication ...