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Funds wrestling with liquidity problem

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2015
... to offer anywhere near their returns targets. The $109 billion Future Fund's mandate is to return CPI +4.5%, but with interest rates at record lows and 10-year government bond yields at 2.6%, holding traditional cash in either term deposit or money market ...

Hyperion closes funds to new investors

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2015
... market leading investment out-performance for our clients. As a result, our funds have attracted substantial investor interest. Potential capacity issues are a side effect of such success," Samway said "The best interests of our investors are at the ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2015
The sharemarket has opened higher on expectations of an interest rate cut after the price of Australia's largest export, iron ore, fell to fresh lows. The iron ore price dropped below $US50 a tonne overnight, extending a run of losses that began a week ...

Experts urge govt to do more to boost infra investment

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2015
Governments should take advantage of low interest rates to finance productive infrastructure and 'de-risk' greenfield projects to make them more attractive to private investors. That was one of the conclusions at a recent roundtable discussion hosted ...

The RBA not in full control of dollar-A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2015
... (so far) of US$0.7582 shortly afterwards. But this had more to do with upped expectations that the Fed is sure to lift interest rates, prompted by Dallas Fed president Richard Fischer's comment that the Fed should promptly start raising interest rates ...

ClearView predicts end of independent financial advice

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2015
... into vertically-integrated licensees. It also warned that care should be taken to ensure third parties with a commercial interest in driving business to vertical models didn't influence reform by using "policy churn" as a scapegoat. "Level commissions ...

Don't take our franking credits: Taxpayers Australia

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2015
... Paper paints a bleak picture of the dividend imputation system and understates the positives. "In an environment of low interest rates, investors - particularly self-funded retirees - have turned to Australian shares that offer good income from dividends ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2015
... managing director David Reynolds said. "It will be interesting to see what happens on Tuesday (April 7), with the (RBA's) interest rates decision," he said. Resources stocks - mining and energy - were leading the market down after a 2.6 per cent drop ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2015
Expectations of a Chinese interest rate cut have boosted the Australian share market, with the big miners making the strongest gains. Comments from People's Bank of China governor Zhou Xiaochuan suggesting further monetary policy easing boosted Wall ...

Rebalancing almost leads to accidental takeover bid

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2015
A quarterly rebalancing of indices was blamed for BlackRock accidentally purchasing more than 20% of Monadelphous Group recently. In a statement to the Australian Securities Exchange on March 25, BlackRock said a change in interests held by the company ...