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Activist shareholders agitate AMP China fund

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2015
Asian hedge fund manager LIM Advisors called for shareholder action to force AMP Capital to take steps to narrow the 26% discount on its China Growth Fund. LIM Advisors said it will call an extraordinary general meeting to take the matter to unitholders ...

CFOs more optimistic in second quarter

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2015
... China and Europe, more than 10 CFOs feel more optimistic now than they did three months ago. Optimism around the Australian dollar has dipped as the exchange rate has steadied. Deloitte assurance and advisory partner, Stephen Gustafson, said last quarter ...

AustralianSuper posts double digit returns

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2015
... officer, Mark Delaney, said strong returns over the past 12 months were driven by gains from the fall in the Australian dollar and positive returns across a range of asset classes including property, infrastructure, fixed income and equities. "Superannuation ...

Australia underperforms as China slows down: Russell

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2015
... resilient domestic share market, a strong domestic currency and a solid property market is crumbling as the Australian dollar falls and China growth slows. The latest edition of the Russell Investments/ASX Long-term Investing Report determined that the ...

Property bubble debate heats up

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2015
... the report said. Lombard Street Research attributed Chinese interest in the Australian market to the falling Australian dollar: "The currency angle is often underestimated." The local currency has depreciated 20% relative to the Renminbi over the last ...

SMSFs need more investment diversity: FinaMetrica

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2015
... markets, SMSFs are missing out on these opportunities given their huge bias towards local shares. Moreover, if the Australian dollar continues to fall, investors could see even greater gains from holding offshore investments. That's because a falling ...

The recesssion we longed to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2015
... recession) and was saved from a recession (1999 and 2009) by RBA rate cuts and the consequent dropped in the Australian dollar. However, this time the Australian dollar remains stubbornly high despite interest rates - both short and long - at record ...

Shares lower at lunch time

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2015
... fell 4.4% in the March quarter, a much larger fall than the median market forecast of 2.4%. Heffernan said the Australian dollar was weaker after the release of the capex figures, which should also be beneficial for the equities market. Among the big ...

Falling AUD offsets dividend growth

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2015
Australia had the fastest dividend growth in Asia Pacific for the year to March 2015, but the falling Australian dollar made the increase modest relative to its counterparts in the region, the Henderson Global Dividend Index found. Australia made up ...

Morphic added to Macquarie platforms

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
Morphic Asset Management's Global Opportunities Fund (MGOF) has been added to the Macquarie Wrap Super and Pension Platform. The MGOF was already available on the Macquarie Wrap Investment service, BT wrap and Netwealth, and the fund manager said it ...