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Fund reaps reward in shopping centre debt

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 APR 2011
... UniSuper's chief investment officer John Pearce said the returns were very good for a AAA-rated security at 180 basis points above the swap rate. "They have a very substantial margin," he said. Pearce checked his screens and said the swap rate is currently ...

Derivatives sky high since SGX fall

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
... derivatives contracts traded on the exchange climbed to 485,000 in March this year, reaching its highest number to date and well above previous record of 442,000 contracts in June 2007. Similarly, equity derivatives volume (excluding the ASX SPI 200) ...

Much ado over a known known

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
... Greece is rated junk for having a deficit predicted at 8.1 per cent of GDP and Portugal's had been downgraded just one notch above junk because its budget shortfall will reach 7.0 per cent of GDP this year. Tell me, how is that not weird? Because the ...

Australian Unity seals $120m debt

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011
... priced at $100 each. The notes will start trading on the ASX on April 19. "We were required to implement a partial scale back above minimum allocations to manage the large number of applications received. However, member and employee applicants were ...

Buying op

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2011
... highlighted on this space back then The Economist magazine's analysis that, "the oil price would need to leap, probably above its 2008 peak of almost $150 a barrel, to fell the recovery" and Dr. Nouriel Roubini's double-dip warning, "If you had the oil ...

Economic woes keep US growth in check

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
... three-quarters of a percent off US GDP. The Nymex Crude futures traded at US$112 per barrel on Tuesday, held stubbornly above the US$100 mark by the ongoing war in Libya. A major medium-term risk was the projected rise of real interest rates, he said. ...

Property primed for inflow pick up

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2011
... to grow," said Richard Stacker, chief executive officer, Charter Hall Direct Property. "They're forecasting rents to go above the long term average on an annual basis so that's a good sign." Hession noted that retail property was up 4 per cent and industrial ...

Yikes the ECB hikes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2011
... pressures over the medium term." There he said it, the ECB is worried about the "I" word. Headline inflation had been running above the bank's 2.0 per cent target ceiling since December last year. It accelerated to 2.6 per cent in March from 2.4 per ...

FPA scores 94pc approval

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 8 APR 2011
... extraordinary general meeting held in Melbourne yesterday recorded a 94 per cent vote in favour of the strategic plan, well above the required 75 per cent. As a result, from July 1 the FPA will move from an industry association to a professional association ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2011
... cent, to 1,335.54. On the local market, gold stocks continued making gains, with spot gold trading throughout the morning above $1,450 per ounce. Australian Stock Report head of research, Geoff Saffer, said the market had not moved much in morning trade ...