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Be wary of lowball offer: AUI

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 15 OCT 2010
Australian Unity Investments (AUI) has written to retail and wholesale investors advising them to be wary of an offer from Direct Share Purchasing Corporation (DSC) to purchase units in the Australian Unity Mortgage Income Trust. The DSC offer is 80 ...

ETF portfolio vs Future Fund portfolio shows gap

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2010
... said that while the Future Fund offers a diverse portfolio with balance between equities and debt, it is relatively conservative compared to one he would construct for a retail investor. "I think it's not aggressive enough in a sense that its emerging ...

Unions threaten strikes with BBC pension reforms looming

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 SEP 2010

Fortune cookie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 SEP 2010
... per cent this year and a still strong 9.1 per cent the next. Latest figures show that this may yet again be on the conservative side. As at the second quarter, Chinese real GDP expanded by 11.1 per cent. More recently, August data show that industrial ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 AUG 2010
... Commonwealth Bank's profit result. Commonwealth on Wednesday said it increased full-year profit 20 per cent and would retain conservative capital and liquidity settings given the uncertain environment. Shares in Australia's biggest bank were down $1.12 ...

Solaris struggles to find local gems

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 5 AUG 2010
... "We're expecting it to be a reasonable results season with expectations probably met," he said. "People are pretty conservative in their expectations and that's improved." The Solaris Core Australian Equity fund (Performance Fee Option) was recently ...

Charter Hall to launch industrial property fund

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUL 2010
... business, said the new fund has been designed with lessons learnt from the GFC in mind. For example, the fund has a conservative gearing of 45 per cent (industrial funds were geared as much as 60 to 70 per cent before the GFC), has an incredibly tight ...

452 Capital returns 32pc in Morgan's absence

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUN 2010
... Accumulation Index, which posted more than 20 per cent, for the year to May. She said 452 Capital's strategy remains very conservative and doesn't tend to outperform when markets rise steeply. "In the past year, we've had a cautious stance on the market ...

Bookmakers fund adopts liquidity strategy

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUN 2010
The Bookmakers Superannuation Fund is removing switching restrictions to its conservative strategies, and dividing its balanced pension and accumulation options in a bid to reopen the fund which faced illiquidity problems during the GFC. The Bookmakers ...

RMBS market low risk and high return: Aberdeen

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2010
... subordinated structures where there's much less buffer on the potential losses from defaults - we're happy to play a more conservative game the risk reward is attractive." He said the fund manager's Australian fixed income funds are long Australian RMBS ...