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GE Capital to exit Australia

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2015

Road of no return

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2015
... zero contributor to the fourth quarter economy as firms run down their stocks. More worrying is its implication for industrial and manufacturing production - slow, at best, until inventories hit painters - a fact we just saw from the weakening Markit ...

ACBC adds further XTBs

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2015
The Australian Corporate Bond Company (ACBC) has made four more XTBs (exchange traded bond units) available on the ASX. The release is the company's third tranche in as many weeks and takes the stable of XTBs to 33 in total. The latest release expands ...

OPINION: Super is Murray's big rock

ANDREW BRAGG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2015
... choose their own super fund. Another fly in the ointment is the $10 billion default fund "MySuper" market where the industrial relations club has not been subject to competition. With the average super fund member charged 1.10% in fees, there are dozens ...

CalPERS sells $4.2bn in real estate assets

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2015
... managers. The CalPERS Real Estate Program currently holds approximately US$27.1 billion ($38 billion) in commercial, industrial, and residential assets. "This sale allows CalPERS to focus on our strategic plan and on investing in assets and managers ...

Martin Currie hires small cap analyst

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2015
... and joins from Kinetic Investment Partners where he spent eight years as an analyst and portfolio manager, covering industrial stocks. Prior to Kinetic, Porto worked for Credit Suisse Investment Banking for two and a half years. Commenting on the appointment ...

Not this year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2015
... taking its toll on US exports (down 2% in August to its lowest level since October 2012 which, in turn, is pulling down industrial production (annual growth has slipped to a mere 0.40% in September, the slowest in five years). With exports contracting ...

Sunrise, sunset

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2015
... Â¥84.4 billion surplus. Just to stress, it reported a deficit instead of an expected surplus. And the list goes on... Industrial production fell by an unexpected 0.4% in the year to August, down from no growth the month before. Similarly, the annual ...

Property funds acquire Sydney, Perth property

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
... At the same time, Investec Australia Property Fund has made public a $26 million acquisition in one of Perth's core industrial suburbs, taking the value of the fund's total portfolio to $405.5 million. The property comprises 21,956 square metres of warehouse ...

Steady funds thrive in low growth world

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
A portfolio of high quality companies that can grow steadily -"not spectacularly"- over the long term is the right strategy to face the challenges of a low growth environment, Morgan Stanley senior portfolio manager Bruno Paulson said. He described ...