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Stay out of residential investments: APN

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2007
Investors should consider avoiding residential property in favour of more diversified property investments, according to Mike Doble, director of retail at APN Funds Management. Doble said that with low liquidity, accessibility and high entry costs ...

Basis Capital suspends yield fund

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2007
Local hedge fund manager Basis Capital yesterday suspended redemptions from its $1 billion Basis Yield Fund. The fund manager wrote to investors saying that disruption to the global structured credit market had created difficulties for the fund and ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2007
The Australian dollar was higher at noon, holding firmly above the 87 US cent mark as demand for high yielding currencies continued to provide support, amid further US dollar weakness. At 1200 AEST, the Australian dollar was trading at $US0.8706/11 ...

Industry dealing well with underinsurance: CommInsure

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2007
... pointed out that while there was, in group risk especially, "no one size fits all package", tailoring of products could yield higher benefits, with improvements in payouts for AustralianSuper customers up by 10 per cent and 100 per cent per annum.

NZ investors hooked on high yield

A survey of New Zealand investors has found that 72 per cent rated interest rates as the most important factor when choosing an investment product and were less concerned about the stability of the financial institution selling them. "With the collapses ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2007
... news in the US services industry and jobs pushed US Treasury yields up by as much as 10 basis points. At 0900 AEST, the yield on the Commonwealth Government February 2017 bond was at 6.243 per cent compared with yesterday's close of 6.210 per cent, while ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUL 2007
The Australian share market was higher at midday with resources and banks keeping the local bourse above water. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 Index was up 41.7 points to 6240.3, while the all ordinaries was up 40.5 points to 6373.1. On the ...

LPTs expand as sentiment dips

... moving their money out of LPTs and into higher yielding alternative assets and Government bonds. At the end of June, the yield on the LPT sector was 5.7 per cent compared with the 10-year Government bond yield of 6.26 per cent. But against the weaker ...

Economic round-up: Raging bull

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 2 JUL 2007
As the Australian stock market finishes what has been the best financial year of the past 20, a spectacular amount of cash has been floating around looking for somewhere to set up house. Investors have done exceptionally which has seen the bull market ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUN 2007
The Australian stock market was stuck in a rut for the third successive day this week, with falls on Wall St and weaker commodity prices again to blame. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 Index was down 44.9 points at 6,263.7, while the all ordinaries ...