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US property still has upside

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2008
US residential property may be in freefall but the institutional investment property market is quite another story, according to CB Richard Ellis Investors. In their "Navigating Stormy Seas: the US real estate investment outlook" report, Doug Herzbrun ...

Diversity wins at State Street

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2008
State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), the investment management arm of State Street Corporation, is to launch a range of diversified growth strategies using both traditional and alternative asset classes. These strategies will invest across a combination ...

Household wealth breaks through $5 trillion

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2008
Household wealth in Australia is now estimated to be $5.1 trillion after jumping 12 per cent last year, reveals the latest analysis from Treasury. The figures are contained in a Treasury Roundup discussion paper by analysts Anthony Goldbloom and Andrew ...

BUSSQ grants $50m to T.Rowe Price

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2008
Queensland building and construction super fund, BUSSQ has awarded a $50 million international equities mandate to T.Rowe Price. David Sullivan, BUSSQ chief executive, said T.Rowe Price replaced Nicholas Applegate after concerns of manager turnover. ...

Investing without feeling

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2008
AXA's chief investment officer Mark Dutton highlighted the US experience that shows why investor returns are chronically influenced by human emotions. Dutton said A US report analysed the returns of the Standard & Poor's 500 Index compared to the experience ...

Tele-underwriting with a health check

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2008
Pathrec has unveiled a tele-underwriting service by a medical service provider for planners and insurers as the firm moves to take a slice of the growing insurance market. According to Pathrec chief executive, Olga Tomic, TeleCheck is an outsourcing ...

ANZ sets the scene for capital raising

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2008
ANZ may be preparing investors for a capital raising. It is also noteworthy that ANZ and its CEO Mike Smith are taking the lead - given NAB and John Stewart took the opposite position in an interview with The Australian (and abstracted here) a couple ...

Water the next competitive frontier

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2008
Treasury boss Ken Henry's speech last week continues to attract interest, especially where he argues for a huge step up in national competition policy, particularly in how we price water. "In addressing the Productivity Commission roundtable on the ...

Optimix to use local Indian know-how

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2008
Optimix chief investment officer Emmanuel Calligeris suggests fund managers who are only entering the market now face an uphill battle compared to those who have had a few years headstart. It took two years of hard work setting up the business but ING's ...

EMs too fast, too furious for sub-prime

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2008
Emerging markets are set to grow more than three times the rate of developed markets and will shrug off the sub-prime led liquidity crisis with ease, according to emerging markets wizard Mark Mobius. EMs investments expert Mobius from Templeton Asset ...