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Financial services SMEs top confidence survey

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
... organisation were slower to pay invoices. Reflecting that, 29% of those surveyed are now insured against the risk of bad debt versus 15% in July 2014. The financial services companies surveyed reported higher optimism in the face of the challenging environment ...

RBA cuts as expected, A$ does the unexpected

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
... new record low 2.0% -- but I bet my bottom dollar not a single soul expected the A$ to do what it did. It 'ap'-preciated versus the US dollar instead of 'de'-preciating - the natural reaction to a central bank action of lowering interest rate differentials. ...

Pubs satisfying BlackRock income thirst

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2015
... income, Scott Thiel said. "We own high-yield securities exposed to pubs, which is specific around the view on shifts in rents versus beer prices and legislative change. We think those are very good assets at the moment." The company is generally bearish ...

Volcker Alliance proposes new US regulator system

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
... many regulators in the US with competing and overlapping responsibilities between each other and even between national versus state regulators leading to gaps that result in major loopholes. Paul Volcker said the system being proposed is similar to the ...

Better to own or to rent investments?

JOHN DYALL  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
... to take advantage of secular themes that can take decades to work through. This is "what some describe as renting assets versus owning them." "Specifically, more permanent segments of a portfolio should pivot off (and be reinforced by) secular changes ...

China's trade trouble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2015
... greenback. Over the past 12 months, the yuan's risen by 20% against the yen, 33% against the euro, 18% against the pound and 25% versus the Australian dollar. The PBOC can lower interest rates all it wants but with the greenback still on a one-way trip ...

Fund manager insists active approach not broken

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2015
... easing and says talented stock pickers will come good again soon. S&P Dow Jones recently published its semi-annual Index Versus Active Funds Scorecard which showed that active fund performance had worsened over the last six months next to index strategies. ...

Active managed fund returns worsen against indices

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2015
The average active fund's performance versus index strategies has worsened compared to the previous six months, according to the S&P Dow Jones Indices Versus Active Funds (SPIVA) Scorecard. The report, issued semi-annually, tracks the performance of ...

RBA rate cut: earlier and more

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2015
... US$51.35 a tonne since the RBA's March meet. But over the same period, the Australian dollar has only weakened by 2.8% versus the US dollar - no thanks to Madame Janet's dovish comments - and by 1.9% on a trade weighted basis. This ensures that, unless ...

Political donations pay off

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2015
... level experienced better share price performance than entities that gave to only one party with an average gain of 18.5% (versus 12.35% for the ASX200). Listed entities that donated only to the Liberal or National Parties experienced an average share ...