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AUI trust posts solid returns, holds value

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2009
While many funds were in the red last year, Australian Unity Investments (AUI) bucked the trend when its Healthcare Property Trust gained 11.27 per cent and, despite the market downturn, many of its underlying direct properties have held their value. ...

China syndrome

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2008
Red alert! Red alert! China is slowing. China is slowing. Persistent punches by the global financial crisis has knocked out the economies of the United States, the Eurozone, Japan and the United Kingdom to name a few. By its sheer size and ongoing industrialisation ...

AXA enhances North

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2008
... growth assets regardless of market conditions. "Investors face a dilemma. On one hand, they need capital preservation to shield the assets they have remaining and are moving funds to safe havens such as cash. On another hand, if they are out of the market ...

Finance industry groups respond to ETS

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2008
... compensated, said AIST's chief executive Fiona Reynolds. Reynolds said that the government should however not excessively shield companies either because that would simply remove the incentive for them to develop effective carbon mitigation and adaptation ...

Macquarie launches defensive options

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2008
... Macquarie Banking and Financial Services Group is tapping the defensive investment solutions market as investors scramble to shield themselves from market volatility. The group has developed a suite of cash offerings that caters to both personal investors ...

Mortgage managers sanguine over Macquarie exit

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2008
... some originators that worked with Macquarie were not told of the decision. Allstate Home Loans' managing director Tony Shield said he heard the news when he was rung by a journalist for a comment. Allstate is a small Queensland lender with a $600 million ...

CFDs to act as shield: CMC

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2008
... stake in the financial planning industry and self directed self-managed super funds (SMSF) investors with the launch of its Shield Account product. According to Nic Blakemore, head of distribution at CMC Markets, financial planners and SMSF investors ...

UBS Aus equities will deliver: Shields

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2008
UBS has completed its Australian equities team restructure after appointing analysts Jeremy Bendiech and Shane Fitzgerald to the group. These appointments follow the departure of Paul Fiani and four senior members of the firm's Australian equities team ...

Schroders shielded from LPT burnout

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2008
The Australian arm of international asset manager, Schroders, managed to buffer a portion of the credit and stockmarket crisis' impact when it sold all listed properties from its equity, balanced, and high yield funds over a year ago. Many investors ...

Water fund washes onto BT wraps

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2008
... despite the current market volatility because of its "defensive backbone". "In current market conditions the utilities help shield the fund, and are likely to be amongst the first stocks to bounce as market confidence returns," said Padley. Erwin Shoeters ...