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Fighting inflation to make housing affordability worse

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2008
... however, Oliver said, "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 ...

Our rates a global sideshow

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2008
Slowing world growth, a collapsing US dollar and a still very nervous global credit market won't slow down world capital flows but rather increase them, said McKinsey in its latest newsletter. "Amid the turmoil, it's easy to forget that long-term structural ...

Australian super funds sticking with equities

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2008
... represented almost 105 per cent of the value of Australia's annual Gross Domestic Product, compared to just 46 per cent a decade ago.

Macquarie ushers new chief

Nicholas Moore, head of Macquarie Capital, is to succeed the group's long time chief executive Allan Moss, who retires this year after almost 15 years at the helm of one of the country's largest homegrown financial services groups. Macquarie Group chairman ...

Schroders shielded from LPT burnout

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2008
... investment strategies have been an area of focus for the firm, despite such strategies falling out of favour in the last decade. "Where investors were piling into asset markets because of their past performance and ignoring the underlying fundamentals ...

Marsupials and the money market

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2008
... billion each month. This lifts the bond market share of these marsupials to 20 per cent compared to being just 2 per cent a decade ago. Foreign demand for our bonds and currency, combined with demand for our dollars due to the resources export rush ...

Alt energy funds ready for 2030

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2008
... papers are coming out about the demand for energy by 2030 and the big shifts are going to happen in the middle of the next decade, so if you get involved, you're really positioning yourself to make returns in the long term." The Bakers Investment Group ...

Valad ups stake in UK property

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2008
... can be readily serviced from cashflows. "While we have been an active investor and trader in the UK market over the last decade, we have been patient in the past year. With the market place now starting to provide interesting opportunities, this new ...

China's investor confidence crisis

MARK STORY  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2008
Following a decade-long bear market that led to a huge sell-off in the 1990s, China's investors have experienced spectacular stock gains since the wave of partial privatisations two years ago. But a dramatic sell-down that shaved 10 per cent off share ...

AustralianSuper selects JPMorgan

... alternative asset classes. The fund for example holds over 25 per cent of its assets in unlisted asset classes, a far cry to a decade ago when unlisted assets tend to account for a tiny fraction of super fund investments. Bryan Gray, JPMorgan's head ...