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ADPIA lobbies for fin literacy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2007
... assets has joined the industrywide call for better investor education after thousands of mum-and-dads lost $1 billion on high yield but high risk investment products. Speaking at a conference this week, Linden Toll, president of the Australian Direct ...

MFS bumper year after restructure

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2007
... Adjustments in the year to 30 June 2008 to go up 11 cents, with Distributions per Security (DPS) of 8.9 cents, representing a yield of 9.8 per cent on the closing price of the group's stapled securities on 27 August 2007 of 91 cents. The value of the ...

Stop chasing artificial yields: PIR

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2007
... and gives investors a false picture of the property fund. "This can be potentially misleading to investors in terms of the yield generating power of the portfolio, if not an outright return capital in disguise," he said. Instead Cruikshank urged investors ...

Schroders distributes into China through Citibank

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 30 AUG 2007
... fund, the ISF Global Bond, the ISF Emerging Market Debt, the ISF Global Energy, the ISF BRIC fund and the ISF Global Equity Yield fund. Lieven Debruyne, head of mutual funds business for Schroders in Asia, said, "With our sole focus on asset management ...

Councils exposed

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 2007
Almost a year ago, when local councils started developing an appetite for Collateralised Debt Obligations (CDOs) after tasting their higher yields, concerns were raised over their involvement these kind of riskier investments. Now, with many CDOs exposed ...

LGSS expands direct property assets

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2007
... while providing a strong and growing income stream," he said. LGSS said the property was attained off-market on a 6 per cent yield. Although the new property already has T5 lighting, power efficient cooling towers and water-saving sensors in the bathrooms ...

Risky business

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2007
Forget loss of appetite, investors seem to have become risk-phobic resulting in equities along with the Aussie dollar suffering another hammering. In a race to the bottom of the pool, the S&P/ASX200 plummeted 9.9 per cent from June's peak, the Nikkei ...

The miseducation on research

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2007
... risks." Peter Ward, director at Standards & Poor's, speaking at a mortgage funds sector briefing, said, "Investors in [high yield mortgage funds] must be informed of the risks of those funds particularly if their assets comprise low doc loans and mezzanine ...

Rate hike to launch dollar?

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2007
... remains poor, which is why we don't expect the RBA rate hike today to put a rocket under the AUD." Where the AU/US 2-year bond yield spread has widened to 190bp from150bp a month ago, NabCapital believes that if risk-appetite recovers, this wider yield ...

Sub-prime dominoes falling

The sub-prime contagion's knock-on effect has so far collided with leveraged loans, investment grade bonds, high yield currencies and global equities. Now local councils are feeling the heat. While consensus has been that the sub-prime fallout would ...