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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2011
... months, causing nervousness around the region. Shanghai fell 0.89 per cent, or 24.89 points, to 2,774.07, led lower by property developers, while Hong Kong tumbled 1.36 per cent, or 320.27 points, to 23,164.03. Tokyo's Nikkei index ended the session ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 FEB 2011
... an earnings season that has buoyed Japanese stocks. Hong Kong stocks closed 0.29 per cent lower led mainly by a dip in property developers' share prices. The benchmark Hang Seng Index slipped 69.29 points to 23,484.30 on turnover of $HK73.78 billion ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 FEB 2011
... pundit, will join AOL's management team. Loews Corp rose five per cent. The company, which owns Loews hotels and the property insurer CNA Financial Corp, said falling costs helped earnings rise 16 per cent even as revenue slipped slightly. The results ...

Aus equities forecast to return 20pc

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 7 FEB 2011
... additional M&A activity. "In all the years I've been in markets, I've never known the listed companies sector, excluding property and listed property trusts, to have so little debt relative to assets. It's a worldwide trend but particularly powerful ...

Global REITs to gain double-digits: INGIM

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 4 FEB 2011
... healthiest dividend payouts are likely to come from the US, research from fund manager INGIM shows. The group anticipates that property companies in the Asia Pacific region will outperform in 2011, with earnings growth of 15-20 per cent and dividend ...

Sunsuper adds another property mandate

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2011
Sunsuper has expanded its direct property portfolio after purchasing a $107 million property to compliment its national growth strategy. The super fund said the property purchase would add diversification to its investment portfolio. "This addition ...

Chimerica threat looms over returns

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 FEB 2011
... into the US. "The US is very competitive, towering over Australia, and has made all the appropriate actions towards its property market and economic challenges to minimise the chance of further decline. "We believe there will be a move back to an equilibrium ...

ASIC strikes $67.45m in Westpoint settlement

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 FEB 2011
... behalf of the Westpoint Group of companies against some of its directors and its auditor KPMG. Investors in the ill-fated property company, which collapsed in January 2006, had a total exposure of $388 million, of which they are now expected to redeem ...

Future Fund returns 7.5pc

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 31 JAN 2011
... investments also fell from making up 25.8 per cent of the fund to 18.8 per cent. By contrast, allocations to private equity, property and infrastracture were significantly up, although even in aggregate, all three asset classes still make up less than ...

Ponzi scheme operator jailed

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 28 JAN 2011
... and nine months imprisonment following an ASIC investigation. Hazel Bucello plead guilty to five counts of obtaining property worth $2,384,339 by deception; and one count of obtaining a financial advantage by deception worth $141,800. Bucello will serve ...