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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2008
... Group rejected a $1.3 billion takeover offer from Lend Lease Corporation Ltd, saying the bid substantially undervalued the owner and operator of retirement villages. FKP shares jumped 98 cents, or 25.79 per cent, to $4.78 towards the $5.00 offer price. ...

Planner buying spree tops $17bn

The latest Rainmaker Research reveals more than $17 billion of funds under advice (FUA) has changed ownership in the last six months, resulting in a major reshuffle of the country's top 10 financial planning groups. The largest deal to date was AXA's ...

GESB converts to a 'true' mutual

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUN 2008
WA-based $8.8 billion super fund GESB is next month scrapping its status as a public-servant only super fund and flicking the switch to become a mutual, complete with voting rights and direct member ownership. Starting 1 July, GESB members will have ...

UN PRI assets reach $15tr

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2008
... in assets under management. At the UN PRI's annual conference, the PRI Report on Progress 2008 found the number of asset owner signatories, including both pension funds and insurance companies, increased by 31 per cent over a one year period. In addition ...

Housing affordability report fails to deliver

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2008
... income earners. Its inflationary impact would be more devastating, a lesson the country surely learned when the $14,000 home owner post-GST grant fuelled price rises many times higher than the size of the grant. The most useful recommendations from the ...

Value of investment housing loans apps up 1.4 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2008
... into the housing market. According to the April 2008 Housing Finance figures just released by the ABS, while the value of owner occupied housing commitments fell 4.9 per cent during the month the value of investment housing commitments rose 1.4 pert ...

The next frontier of investing

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2008
Looking to pour cash into Kazakhstan, Slovenia and Nigeria? Today frontier market investing is more than just a fad, says Mark Mobius of Franklin Templeton Investments. "[Frontier market investing is] part of a long-term trend, one that's connected ...

CBA still seeding Colonial funds

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2008
... this year. Warwick Negus, chief executive of Colonial First State Global Asset Management, said the group was the largest owner and manager of shopping centres in Asia, and suggested that as the group exploited investment opportunities in this booming ...

Perennial adds to smaller companies division

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2008
... manage its capability. As part of that strategy, John Murray, Perennial managing director, said Smith would become a part owner of the business. "Having established this new boutique earlier this year, we have been able to align the incentives of our ...

Wash sales left to dry: GMK Centric

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2008
Financial planners, accountants and individual investors could face massive fines if they promote the use of 'wash sale' strategies to gain a tax break for their clients, warns chartered accountancy GMK Centric. A wash sale is when an investor buys ...