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Waiting to exhale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 AUG 2010
... funds rate. At 0-0.25 percent, it's already down on the ground. But the Fed can nudge down interest rates further along the yield curve by reinvesting the proceeds (principal and interest) from its mortgage-backed securities portfolio. Expectations alone ...

Charter Hall to launch industrial property fund

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUL 2010
... investment criteria and has a well-defined exit policy (to avoid redemption problems). The fund will target an 8.7 per cent p.a. yield for initial investors backed by the first asset located in Melbourne and 100 per cent leased to Toll Holdings under ...

Infrastructure mandates tough for super funds

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2010
... he said. Asset Super is currently biding its time and awaiting the coming state and federal election which Paul hope will yield fresh projects with less debt and better structures that will allow local super funds to hand out mandates with confidence. ...

Frozen fund investors get $36m settlement

COMMERCE COMMISSION RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2010
... violated the Fair Trading Act. Around 15,000 investors had their money frozen in the two ING funds, the ING Diversified Yield Fund and the ING Regular Income Fund on 13 March 2008. Approximately 80 per cent of investors should receive a payment from ...

Half-filled

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JUL 2010
Another set of dismal data again failed to get Wall Street down last night. Big-named US companies that reported their second quarter results overnight came up short of expectations and worse, some even downgraded their earnings guidance. Data out on ...

Insync targets consumer and healthcare stocks

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUL 2010
... their sectors and generate consistent free cash flow. The fund manager also targets companies that have a rising dividend yield, which gives some indication on how confident the business is in its future growth. By contrast, Insync avoids cyclical companies ...

US pension plan deficits rise in June

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUL 2010
Pension plan deficits of S&P1500 reached $510 billion at the end of the financial year, just $1 billion shy of the previous deficit record set in January 2009, according to a new report. Mercer's survey found the pension plan deficit had widened by ...

Omega wins Medibank and Telstra Super mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUL 2010
Specialist fixed income manager Omega Global Investors has won a $50 million mandate from Medibank and a second from Telstra Super for an undisclosed sum. The $50 million from Medibank will be invested in a global bonds mandate. Medibank treasurer ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUL 2010
... 0.5 per cent, to 1,028.06, and the Nasdaq composite index lifted 2.09, or 0.1 per cent, to 2,093.88. Bond prices rose. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note, which moves opposite its price, fell to 2.94 per cent from 2.98 per cent late Friday. ...

Tyndall launches share income fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUN 2010
... return of the consumer price index (CPI) plus six per cent over rolling seven-year periods and provide a gross dividend yield greater than the S&P/ASX 200 Accumulation Index. Jason Kim and Tim Johnston are both portfolio managers of the fund and have ...