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YBR's cash fund receives new ratings

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014
... Cash Fund, which we are finding is increasingly popular amongst wholesale and institutional clients. "In the September quarter we will distribute a 4.2% annualised income return after all fees to our investors, which is consistent with our net 4% return ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2014
... confirmed it's sticking with its full-year production target, despite a 12 per cent slump in output during the September quarter. Iron ore miner Fortescue Metals was up 10.5 cents at $3.405. But, the major banks are offsetting the miners gains, with ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2014
The Australian share market is flat in sporadic trading that was expected on the final day of the September quarter. IG market strategist Evan Lucas said that hedge funds and large fund managers were balancing their books in line with trading strategies ...

Growth and consequence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2014
... easy for the Bank of Japan (BOJ) though. It's still sweating out and may have to keep on sweatin' until the September quarter before it acts or not act. Sure, sure, last week's Japanese GDP report showed the economy expanded by 1.5% in the first quarter ...

Moving on up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2014
... the country's economic growth - real GDP slowed to 6.5% in the fourth quarter of last year from 7.0% in the September quarter. Yet despite this deceleration, the country's economic growth remains faster than that of its peers - Thailand (0.5%); Malaysia ...

You go NZ

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2014
... A few clicks on my Factset screen showed me that NZ's real GDP growth accelerated to 3.1% in the year to the September quarter last year (the latest available) from 2.3% in the same quarter of 2012... and the unemployment rate dropping to 6.0% in the ...

When saving goes bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014
... household savings ratio has been around double digits since the December quarter of 2008 (it was at 11.1% in the September quarter of 2013). The last time it was near these levels was in 1990 (that preceded the 1991 recession) a and in 1985 (Australia ...

ANZ profit on the rise in first quarter

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2014
... bank's provision charge for bad debts was $191 million in the December quarter, down from $322 million in the September quarter. The global wealth division continued to improve business performance through productivity gains and increased sales of wealth ...

SMSFs stick with cash and TDs

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2014
... lowering interest rates and resulting increase in inflation risk. According to the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) September quarter 2013 figures, 29.6% of SMSF funds were invested in cash and term deposits. This compares with 30.6% in the June quarter ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2013
... recent weeks was not surprising. He said the release of key Australian gross domestic product figures for the September quarter would be one the biggest events for the market on Wednesday. The listing of electronics retailer Dick Smith Holdings at noon ...