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Property rally drives Charter Hall results up

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
Charter Hall Group's profit after tax is up 43.6% for the year to 30 June 2015, as property rallies in Australia. The group's profit was $117.9 million for the year, with funds under management growing 18% to $13.6 billion. Charter Hall secured $1.7 ...

FEATURE: Alternatives - Taking the plunge

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
Declining bond yields, an uncertain equities landscape and an appetite for diversification are driving institutions towards alternative assets. Alex Burke investigates whether this is the right idea. When Perpetual acting general manager for regulated ...

Gold's no longer gold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2015
Well they tried, and they tried, and they tried, but it seems that there's just no bringing back gold's shine. Gold was hit for six - that is, prices dropped for a sixth consecutive day overnight - down to a low of US$1,088.05 per ounce (the lowest ...

Stirred but not shaken

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2015
Was that it? No fire sale? Have the financial markets lost their marbles? Haven't they read the headlines about Greece turn from gloom to doom and yet... there were no massive sell orders? Or, not enough buy-ops. Equity markets closed down, a bit, - ...

The Fed is Greek too

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2015
... the paltry 3.2% gain in the S&P 500 index to date (and that's not counting the loss from the rise in the US 10-year bond yield from 2.11% at the start of 2015 to 2.41% last night). But if we learned anything from Greece's history, it's that this bounce ...

Graccident averted (yet again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2015
Hoo-wow! Houston, we had lift-off. Yes Virginia, financial markets from New York to Rio and old London town lifted off while we slept. Equity markets jumped while bond yields dived. These, because on optimism that a Greco-troika deal would be hammered ...

ANALYSIS: The rise of the periphery

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
... "all economic indicators are ticking up and beating expectations. In Ireland, unemployment is at 10%, but the 10 year bond yield is at around 1.7%, which shows investors' confidence in the country's ability to pay its debt. Yields for Spain and Italy ...

Investors pretending there's value in the market

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
... in the equity market when there isn't. There are a lot of stocks where people say, 'they must be cheap because the bond yield is next to nothing and the stock is yielding 3%," and that is not a valuation argument." "Investors have a clear choice here ...

Rising bond yields a blip

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2015
A recent rise in bond yields across Europe, America and Australia is nothing but a blip on the radar according to Altair Asset Management chief economist, Stephen Roberts. In his latest economic insights column, Roberts said the risk of recession in ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2015
The Australian share market looks set to open higher after a strong lead from the US stock market. At 0645 AEST on Thursday, the June share price index futures contract was up 51 points at 5,526. Wall Street rose more than one per cent as technology ...