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Mission accomplished?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2014
... last week's activity, the pound's up by 15.3% against the greenback to A£1.71 (from 2013's low of A£1.48) and by 10.1% versus the euro to A£1.26 (from 2013's low of A£1.14). To be sure, to be sure, Captain Carney doesn't want to do a George W. when ...

Demographic shift injects growth into healthcare property investment

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2014
... According to Australian Unity Investments research, less than 1% of all real estate investment goes towards Age Care assets versus 16% in the US. Pratt added that as healthcare properties rise in profile and become attractive, competition for assets ...

A sign from the holy spirit?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2014
... Street Journal puts it, "Yield spreads between government bonds of Portugal, Spain and Italy have fallen sharply since then versus those of Germany... Corporate bond yields have fallen, too". "The program hasn't even been used; the ECB's verbal commitment ...

CBA opens up compensation review to all advice clients

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2014
... Narev said that the review will "look for the difference between the performance of the portfolio that you ought to be in versus the performance of the portfolio that you were put in." He noted that "the events considered by the Senate Committee occurred ...

So good but for the wrong spin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2014
... That was until I stopped and looked at the actual reports. And here's what I found: ISM manufacturing index - 55.3 in June versus 55.4 in May and expectations of 55.6. Markit PMI - 57.3 in June (final) versus 57.5 (preliminary June) and 56.4 (final May) ...

Third arrow, broken arrow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2014
... strength and/or growing doubts over the economy's outlook. After depreciating by 17.8% against the greenback and 20.9% versus the euro in 2013, the yen's value has increased by 4.0% and 4.9% against the US dollar and the euro, respectively, in the first ...

But they said it was Iraq

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2014
... To be fair, the Dow did not quite recoup the 0.7% lost the day before - up 0.3% overnight - nor did the S&P 500 (up 0.5% versus down 0.6%) but there's no other way to view these but as decent gains particularly given worse than expected updates on the ...

Getting ideas across to SMSFs the first battle: AMP

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
... has a positive number that I am always trying to meet." He said the anti-fee 'crusade' makes more sense in the passive versus active equities debate. Currently 13% of funds under management in AMP Capital's CIF come from SMSFs, but Lucas said this figure ...

Beware high correlations: AQR

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... aggregate, as many investors do; hedge funds appear to have high correlations to traditional assets and little added value versus a wider equity market index. This, he explained, is because there are many managers who have been attracted to the hedge ...

Waiting for the ECB to exhale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
... to financial institutions or... all of the above. But in case you didn't notice, the euro has only fallen by a mere 0.3% versus the greenback to 1.3627 last night from 1.3672 at the star of the year - the time when the Fed started taper - this close ...