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Aus equities forecast to return 20pc

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 7 FEB 2011
... that the market is heading for an upswing but said for the ASX200 to reach 6,000 points, investors need to first see a "pretty sizeable upgrade" to earnings. "Generally, when you look at the sharemarket, it's not particularly cheap, not particularly ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 FEB 2011
... showed their economy was continuing to improve, boosting confidence on the local market. "With that lead, we wanted to see a pretty buoyant opening to the local market, and we did," Mr Heffernan said. "When you look across the top 20 ASX listed companies ...

Chimerica threat looms over returns

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 FEB 2011
... gone through the aggressive fixed investment type of approach that China has had, have a hard landing." "The Chinese are pretty clearly trying to slow it down, their economy and their property market pretty aggressively, they are worried about the same ...

Investors tap emerging market debt

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 17 JAN 2011
... attractive investment proposition, while their comparatively low volatility only adds to the appeal. Murphy said there is a "pretty strong thesis" that investors can receive an added pickup from investments in local currency bonds as those currencies ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2010
... with 17,054 contracts traded. Around five stocks had risen for every decline in the S&P/ASX50 at noon. "It looks like a pretty positive day," IG Markets research analyst Ben Potter said from Melbourne. "They are pretty much broad-based gains in the local ...

Green light for global equities surge: Bell Potter

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 7 DEC 2010
... banking crises over the past 50 years, Quinton, director of research at Bell Potter, said that "the share market today is pretty well where economic history would indicate it should be." Quinton said that the current performance of equity markets conforms ...

Future Fund ex-strategy chief opens Scarce Capital

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2010
... nobody wants to touch it. "It wasn't a sexy investment but there was an 18 per cent yield there and yet global capital is pretty uninterested in it, I think there are plenty of places that represents really good opportunity like that but, unfortunately ...

Direct property makes a comeback

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 18 NOV 2010
... its performance during the GFC. "Our direct property got marked down in value (during the GFC) but the cashflows remained pretty solid,' he explained. SunSuper has over $1 billion invested in domestic property and all of it direct, with Hartley confirming ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 NOV 2010
... Heffernan said the market had made up some ground since opening slightly lower. "The fact that the market is up in the face of pretty heavy decline in National Australia Bank shares after it's ex-dividend is not a bad performance and especially when ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 NOV 2010
... the four big banks last week had buoyed the financial sector. "The banks are having a good trot," he said. "They put out pretty good results, and when you look at it from a longer term perspective they are still lower than they have been historically. ...