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AUI opens Office Property Fund to new investment

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2012
... development over the past three years, as developers have had to deal with high debt costs and stringent lending requirements from banks. As a result, the limited office property supply should lead to rental growth or cushion rents from falling if demand ...

Super sector turning to dedicated long-term lenders

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2012
As the major banks shift away from commercial property lending, super funds are turning to dedicated long term lenders, according to a funds manager specialising in secured private debt. "The superannuation sector is a really natural long term investor. ...

Not that rainy day feeling again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2012
... in house prices, and a 50% plunge in the stock market. Certainly, most other financial institutions, companies, central banks and/or government treasuries have already done their own sums and have already erected fortifications. Sure, there'll be knee-jerk ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2012
... points. NEW YORK - US stocks have dived in the wake of European and Asian losses on rising investor worries about Spain's weak banks. The yield on the US Treasury's 10-year bond hit an all-time record low and the US dollar reached a nearly two-year high ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2012
... Tuesday's close of $US1,578.05. Gold major Newcrest Mining felts the effects, losing $1.02 or 3.97 per cent to $24.65. Major banks were weaker, led by Westpac Banking Corporation which dropped 25 cents, or 1.22 per cent to $20.30. Retailers were mostly ...

Bad news? What bad news?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2012
... Officer Goran Bronner when he, along with the financial markets, pooh poohed Moody's downgrade of Swedish and Norwegian banks last week. "Moody's in general is very backward looking; they are often stating things that are well recognized from the financial ...

Lazard faces losses on Hastie collapse

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2012
... providing technical and engineering services to the building, infrastructure and resource sectors. Almost all Australian banks had an exposure to the company, said Ian Carson, chairman of partners at PPB Advisory speaking at a media conference yesterday ...

NAB winds up private equity arm

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2012
... only around eight people and the closure represents the last of direct private equity investments by Big Four Australian banks. MLC's private equity fund of funds business, which operates as a manager of managers program will not be affected.

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2012
... $1.25 but European stocks firmed despite dark clouds lingering over the eurozone with concerns that problems at Spanish banks could turn into a full-blown crisis. Trade was choppy throughout the session but took a final turn higher on news Italian Prime ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2012
... resources." European stocks firmed despite dark clouds lingering over the euro zone with concerns that problems at Spanish banks could turn into a full-blown crisis. Trade was choppy throughout the session but took a final turn higher on news Italian ...