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Direct property shines in NFP funds

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2008
Not-for-profit super funds have continued to outperform over the past year as a result of their high allocations to direct property, according to Rainmaker Information. "Our research has shown not-for-profit funds have increased their lead because of ...

Pragnell moves to APCA

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2008
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) head of policy and best practice, Brad Pragnell, has resigned to take a role as head of industry policy at the Australian Payment Clearing Association (APCA). Pragnell will start his new role ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
The Australian sharemarket was lower at noon as investors were unwilling to buy stocks because of concerns about losses related to credit markets and margin loans. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 22.4 points, or 0.42 per cent ...

ASIC investigates Opes Prime

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2008
Opes Prime Stockbroking is under investigation by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) after the firm found a number of cash and stock movement irregularities in a small number of accounts. ASIC has created a team, which will ...

Retail profits, currency price cuts and ag-flation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2008
Fighting inflation may be the government's number one policy fight right now, but another should be fighting contradictory policy suggestions and forcing retailers to pass on currency induced price cuts. Australia's major economic debate is how the ...

Fear is the poison apple

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2008
Markets rise and fall, taking investors on an emotional roller coaster ride - but the deepest trap lies in their irrational 'fear', notes a behavioural finance expert. US-based Russell Investment Group senior portfolio strategist, Stephen Wood, acknowledged ...

Marsupials and the money market

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2008
US-Aust interest rate differentials are now at a four year and almost all time high after this morning's US rate rise, putting even more pressure on central banks around the world to follow suit irrespective of local fundamentals. The US rate drop to ...

Charter Hall closes retail fund oversubscribed

... track record of an existing fund, One of its products, the Diversified Property Fund, which has recorded a net of fees equity IRR of 18.2 per annum since inception. Charter Hall Group has over $2.8 billion funds under management and a market cap of around ...

Low frills, high returns

... at Watson Wyatt, to join the team behind the new fund. But while the group used to offer investors internal rate of return (IRR) of between 19 to 20 per cent (and delivered around 30 per cent in some periods), Samway said expectations for the new fund ...

Assets growth kills alpha: State Street

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2007
Assets under management (AUM) growth can have a significant impact on alpha generation unless models are altered to deal with capacity issues, according to State Street Associates vice president Simon Myrgren. Myrgren said State Street had developed ...