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nabInvest swoops for Aviva

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011
... Asian regional hub in Singapore. Aviva said the group intends to focus on 12 priority markets. Aviva Investors Australia had gross assets of $32 million at the end of 2010 and $5.5 billion of assets under management at July 31 2011. NabInvest, the direct ...

Market dives on US downgrade, China demands new reserve currency

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
... by the size of US debt and the decline in value of the US dollar, eroding the purchasing power of their investments. Bill Gross, managing director of bond fund PIMCO, sold out of US Treasuries in March. In his August investment outlook, he wrote that ...

LICs benefit from FOFA

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011
The impending loss of trailing commissions for managed funds has made listed investment companies more attractive by leveling the playing field, an industry insider said yesterday. John Robinson, chairman of Global Mining Investments (GMI), a listed ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2011
... weighed on growth expectations of the US economy and that follows weaker manufacturing data earlier this week and weaker GDP (gross domestic product) number last week. "So you've got more analysts revising down their growth expectations for the US economy ...

Super funds to provide standard risk measure

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2011
... GFC really exposed that," said Graus. An obvious criticism of the new standard, which will see investment risk measured gross of tax for more accurate comparisons to non-super and pension options, is that it measures the number of negative years, not ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2011
... cent) to close at 2,756.38. The Dow plunged more than 100 points in opening trade after the government reported that US gross domestic product grew just 1.3 per cent in the second quarter, a much slower pace than economists had expected. Notably, the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2011
... showing the mainland economy eased in the second quarter but still showed signs of robustness. China said second-quarter gross domestic product rose 9.5 per cent from a year earlier, easing from 9.7 per cent in the first quarter but higher than forecasts ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2011
... Tuesday. Since 0700 AEST on Wednesday, the local unit traded between 106.42 US cents and 105.87 US cents. China's annual gross domestic product growth eased to 9.5 per cent in the second quarter of 2011 from 9.7 per cent in the previous quarter, the ...

Yale returns tough to replicate: academic

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2011
Super funds modeling their investment strategies on the highly successful Yale Endowment Fund should be careful, warns an academic. The Yale Endowment Fund (YEF) is famous for the high returns it achieves from investment in private equity funds, returns ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2011
... he said. During the rest of the week local investors' eyes will be on offshore markets, as China reports its June quarter gross domestic product and the US reports monthly retail sales and inflation figures. On Monday in Australia, the Australian Bureau ...