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Fighting inflation to make housing affordability worse

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2008
... "Australian house prices haven't corrected the over-valuation from the housing boom earlier this decade. This took them well above their long-term trend and they remain about 29 per cent above trend." As a result, Oliver does not expect house prices ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2008
... contract was 89 points lower at 5,504 on 12,021 contracts. The RBA said the risk that price pressures will remain high, and above its two to three per cent comfort band, was considerable.

Fortune favours the prudent

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2008
... available on high yield bonds compared to government bonds has risen sharply from its start of year lows and they are now above their average level for five years." "However, while the spreads on corporate bonds and other credit investments are higher ...

World growth to drop by one-fifth, but no US recession: IMF

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2008
... Meanwhile the IMF expects US growth to slow to 1.5 percent this year, down from 2.2 percent last year, but to stay clearly above the recession red zone. Growth in western Europe is also slowing, driven down by confidence indicators which are generally ...

Cautiously upbeat: Economists Forum

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2008
... the economic dark horse is currency. "The story for manufacturing is a reasonably strong story. But when the dollar rises above 85 cents it's bad news." Dr Shane Oliver, head of investment strategy and chief economist at AMP Capital Investors, said it's ...

Morgan Stanley launches new FX strategy

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2008
... two versions in Australia, the Morgan Stanley FX Alpha Fund aspires to target a gross annualised return of four per cent above the UBS Australian bank bill index, with an estimated value at risk (VaR) of four per cent. The Morgan Stanley FX Alpha Plus ...

Conflicting rate calls

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2008
... Stark suggest the ECB stands poised to raise interest rates to counter inflation which has accelerated to 3.1 per cent well above the ECB's target of just below 2 per cent. Calls to lower rates follow signs that the European economy could be in for a ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2008
... day. The index has now drifted further below the psychological 6,000 mark, which it breached on Wednesday after five months above that mark. FRANKFURT - The DAX index ended at 7,413.53 points, down 58.04 or 0.78 per cent. PARIS - The CAC-40 index closed ...

Super funds to hold firm despite market crisis

... members on a default option could see rolling 12-month returns to December 2007 to fall to around 7 to 8 per cent, still above the cash rate and on par with the yield of a conservatively managed portfolio. Drilling down the numbers further, Selecting ...

Austock High Yield gets three stars

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2008
... management fee was not as expensive compared to its peers, although investors pay a 15 per cent performance fee of the return above the UBS Bank Bill Index benchmark plus two per cent. The fund does have a remuneration policy that is linked to fund performance ...