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AREITs damaged by exuberance

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2008
... that is about the transform the sector. "Trusts became deal junkies and lost sight that they were set up for stability of returns. They became entrepreneurial, leveraged companies and failed to live up to their promise," said Ivor Ries, former journalist ...

Schroders scores $100m mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2008
... philosophy with our main Australian equities fund - focusing on quality growth businesses that can generate sustainable excess returns through the cycle. "[It focuses] specifically on the small companies market and is benchmarked against the Small Ordinaries ...

EAI merges with PRI

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2008
... asset under management investment research firm. Both EAI and PRI initiatives aim to achieve better long-term investment returns by assessing the impact of extra financial issues (EFIs), which include corporate governance and climate change, on the company ...

Patience is a virtue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2008
... more affordable. Restructuring and cost cutting will increase productivity, competitiveness improves and profitability returns. Weak companies disappear, and only the strong remains. This will create a virtuous cycle and provide a sturdier springboard ...

When five become one: AUI

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2008
... Another advantage, said Hession lies in the fact that investors will retain an interest in property that have delivered good returns over the past few years. "While the syndicate structure has worked well in the past, it always had limitations that ...

Back to basics for property

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2008
... Australian unlisted property and the rest in cash. The underlying objective of the fund is to generate traditional property returns of income plus capital growth. Este pegged the mix as "the best trade off between risk and return". "We did some work ...

DB back in vogue: Equipsuper

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2008
Volatile markets and negative returns have turned investors off accumulation schemes towards defined benefits, said Equipsuper. The $4.2 billion Equipsuper's chief executive Robin Burns said defined benefits account for around 40 per cent of the fund's ...

Zurich fund awarded S&P 'five stars'

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2008
... Poor's analyst, said the rating reflected the firm's belief that the investment team can deliver strong risk adjusted returns relative to peers and the benchmark. "The likelihood of the funds investment strategy being inhibited by recent regulatory impositions ...

CHOICE selects top FHSAs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2008
... make a deposit, but in other months accounts earn just 0.01 per cent." CHOICE said most of the accounts can provide good returns and some offer incentives like waiving mortgage establishment fees in the future. It's all a matter of consumers doing their ...

APRA rebuffs super stats critics

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2008
... scrutiny. "APRA is a disinterested reporter of statistical data. The fact that the average retail fund generates lower returns than the average not-for-profit fund is a finding emerging from the data, not from any methodological bias," he wrote. Jones ...