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Prime industrial rents hit four year high

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2012
Prime industrial rents have returned to pre GFC levels and national capital values have reached a four year high, according to the latest Australian Industrial MarketView report from CBRE. The report highlights a continued slow recovery in the industrial ...

Investor cash obsession worries wealth creators

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2012
... governor Glenn Stevens for investors to return to shares, investors' remain unwaveringly committed to cash. Following the GFC fund managers were understandably overweight in cash, but four years later the colossus of money still parked in the 'folding ...

Retirement solution upside for investment managers: Oliver Wyman

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2012
... flows outlook as the key threat confronting investment managers. He said that disappointing flows and volatile earnings post-GFC have been driving down what were already modest profit margins. As a case in point, net flows into platforms/Wraps have gone ...

FPA calls for greater scrutiny of fund managers

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2012
... "Investment managers have escaped a lot of criticism and debate about their recent performance," he said. "In the wake of the GFC and falling markets, performance simply hasn't matched the high levels of fees," says De Gori. A recent report commissioned ...

Market anxiety shrouds SMSF appetite for equities

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2012
... official Australian Tax Office statistics, the average SMSF holds around 30% in equities. That is down somewhat on the pre-GFC level of 35%," he said. "What we do know is that SMSF members are holding large amounts of cash which many have locked into ...

Ten-year future vs. 10-minute tick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2012
... eurozone and then hell breaks loose. But we had previous 'scary' episodes before in financial and economic history - notably the GFC and the Great Depression. All of them provided great entry points for the brave and those looking at the 10-year future ...

Investors need mid-term protection: BT

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2012
... retirement products that preserve capital when markets fall but still provide opportunity for growth on the upside. "Since the GFC we have seen a flight to safety as retirees who saw no alternative turned away from market exposure and re-weighted their ...

Strong growth in securities lending: J.P. Morgan

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012
... were the market was comparable. "The first thought is no longer 'the market is difficult, let's get out of lending,' "If the GFC did anything, it raised the bar," he said.

Litigation risk to force advisers into multi-asset options: Russell

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012
... to stay on top of and understand each manager's risk profile. But that small basket is not suitable for investors who, post-GFC need a much broader range of investments, not fewer, to control their risk profile." Aside from the traditional mix of equities ...

Fewer IPO's no excuse for poor returns: Hyperion

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2012
... managers. "In the last five calendar years IPOs have been running at less than 25% of the average in the five years prior to the GFC. "And in terms of industrial IPOs, where Hyperion's interest really lies, the figures are closer to 15% over the same ...