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Healthcare property produces double digit returns

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2016
... returns for investors in the sector." He added valuations across the total portfolio were up 9% from the prior year and gross asset value now stands at more than $1.1 billion. Smith said recent data from the IPD Australia Healthcare Investment Digest ...

Flat markets impact IAG profit

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2016
... margin of 14.3% (FY15 10.7%). In a statement to the ASX, IAG said it was a sound result in light of the relatively flat gross written premium of $11.37 billion, a fall of 0.6% from FY15 which reflects the "challenging operating conditions in the Australian ...

Investors missing healthy returns amid bond fears

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2016
... director and portfolio manager of the firm's Diversified Fixed Income Fund, Jeff Grow. While so-called 'bond king' Bill Gross spooked many investors with his comments in June that US$10 trillion of negative rate bonds globally is "a supernova that will ...

Sell everything (again?)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2016
... investors seem to have been hypnotized that nothing can go wrong." He's betting on gold and gold miners. Bond market king Bill Gross echoes Gundlach view, "If we see fiscal stimulation in Japan China and ultimately the US after the election, I think ...

PIMCO announces global layoffs

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2016
... for their contributions." PIMCO's leadership changes follow the significant outflows from the group after "bond king" Bill Gross departed, and subsequently sued, the company in 2014/15.

Munich Re pursues divestment from insurance

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2016
... "Therefore, Munich Re will pursue a divestment of its primary insurance arm in Australia and New Zealand. GLA currently has a gross written premium of around $500 million." Munich Re stressed that Australia will remain an important market, with the insurer ...

Synchron lands payroll tax win

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUN 2016
... payroll tax in Australia, SRO Victoria assessed that all licensees would be liable to pay approximately 5% payroll tax on the gross revenue of authorised representatives, backdated seven years. According to Synchron director, Don Trapnell, the SRO's ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUN 2016
... resale as operating margins remained under pressure. German retailers, on the other hand, reported the first improvement in gross margins in five-and-a-half years, in a sign of high street businesses there returning to better health."

NZ Super appoints two board members

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2016
... Super Fund head of international direct investment, Nigel Gormly, said Z Energy had been an excellent investment with a gross return to date of about 48% per annum. Gormly said the sale reflected the achievement of the fund's original goals for its private-equity ...

HUB24 FUA up 84pc

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAY 2016
... under administration (FUA), heralding 84% growth in the past 12 months. The announcement follows three quarters of strong gross inflows for HUB24 in the 2016 financial year, with the platform having the sixth highest net inflows across the industry in ...