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Good times to keep rolling for investors

Perennial Investment Partners' monthly Investors Index has found that April was an excellent month for investors in property and shares. "Global property has benefited from both a shift in institutional investor asset allocation in the developed markets ...

Opes Prime launches First IT platform

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2007
Opes Prime has launched what it claims is an industry first IT platform, appropriately called Opes Prime First, to provide a total online service for its securities lending and equity financing clients. The multi-market, multi-currency system, developed ...

Gap between DB and DC pension payouts widens

A new study has found that members of defined contribution (DC) pension plans in the UK are likely to receive 42 per cent less than their counterparts with defined benefits (DB) schemes. The findings were from the annual Fidelity Retirement Index released ...

Public equity under pressure

"The issue is not private equity but what's wrong with public equity," said Future Fund chairman, David Murray, as the debate heats up over the long-term impact of private equity takeovers on the publicly listed companies sector. Commenting on the round ...

Inflation could still rain on the parade

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2007
Interest rates may be on hold for another six months and we could see a larger than expected cash surplus resulting in multi-billion dollar pre-election tax cuts. Fears of increasing consumer spending impacting inflation would already seem justified ...

AFS increases stake in Salisbury

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2007
AFS has acquired a 'strategic stake' The Salisbury Group (TSG) dealership, adding 30 financial planning practices to its books and expanding its Funds Under Advice (FUA) to $6 billion. The full extent of the increase is unclear, as AFS chief executive ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2007
The Australian Bureau of Statistics today releases highly anticipated Consumer Price Index data, which the market will look to for an indication of future monetary policy and a direction on official interest rates. In company news, Caltex today hosts ...

Vanguard puts case for passive-active allocation

An asset allocation expert from leading index manager Vanguard has put forward the case for a portfolio construction model that invests around 40 per cent in active strategies. In a whistlestop visit to Australia, Nelson Wicas, a US based principal ...

AMP Capital goes for retail sustainability

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2007
AMP Capital has launched its first retail sustainable share fund, giving retail clients access to their long-running Capital Investors' sustainable funds for the first time. Offered through AMP Capital Private Clients, the fund follows from over five ...

Future Fund focuses on building blocks

Amid pressure from the industry to disclose how and when the Future Fund will deploy its near $50 billion assets, general manager Paul Costello stressed their main focus remains on building the right operational and investment infrastructure first. ...