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Investing on thin ice

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2010
... on investor wealth is that inflation-linked bonds (the usual remedy against inflation) have become expensive as demand eclipse supply. It's a Catch-22, he said, gauging whether governments will focus on medium-term or long-term risks of economies deteriorating. ...

ETF assets to reach $1.6 trillion

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2009
Exchange traded funds (ETF) assets are set to eclipse the $1.6 trillion mark in the next two years - $500 billion more than its current assets, new research by Strategic Insight shows. Assets in global exchange traded funds raked in more than $1.1 trillion ...

Allianz pays $500,000 to bushfire sufferers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2009
Allianz Australia has paid out more than $500,000 to Victoria's bushfire victims and expects the total industry insured damage to reach $1 billion. By noon on Thursday Allianz had received 533 claims valued at more than $55 million, more than double ...

OFG banks on bonds and property

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2008
... attention from the group. The settlement of the 51 per cent acquisition in specialist unlisted property trust manager Eclipse Property Group, along with OFG's 100 per cent owned subsidiary Century Funds Management will increase the company's FUM to $930 ...

REST and First State Super seed St Hilliers No. 4

... per cent p.a. return after performance fees and expenses. But what's different with Fund No. 4 is that it will easily eclipse the previous three funds in size. Fund No. 1 has around $65 million in assets, Fund No. 2 and No. 3 have a combined $140 million ...

Oil sours economic rally

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2008
... the level in 2003 with outflows of about $200bn in 2006. Given these figures, McKinsey expects GCC foreign investment to eclipse previous investment flows by considerable quantums. Armed with these incoming warchests, McKinsey also expects Gulf investors ...

China's pension to dwarf Australia

MICHAEL HOBBS AND CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2007
... for Mercer Investment Consulting. Promnitz said that while China's savings system is starting from a small base, it will eclipse Australia's market once it cements its investment infrastructure. "China had a fairly simple, basic, company-based structure ...

Raging bull in sub-prime abattoir

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2007
The offshore-bulls were running rampant overnight, straight into the abattoir as rumours of a huge sub-prime loss for Merrill Lynch proved to be true. The world's biggest brokerage firm Merrill Lynch reported a blowout in losses in its third quarter ...

Sustainable investing eclipses SRI

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2007
Socially responsible investing built on the ideas of simply screening out bad investments is naA-ve and doesn't do much more than confuse investors, said McKinsey & Co in a report to clients. "Early approaches simplistically screened out 'sin sectors' ...

Citigroup puts a cost on climate change

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 12 DEC 2006
A report has just been released by Citigroup Australia consulting analyst Elaine Prior on the effect of climate change on companies within the ASX100. The analysis follows the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDPP4) which surveyed 225 investors globally with ...