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SMEs turning to advice, slowly

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2011
... is that it's not as widespread as we might think with only 43 per cent intending to fund their retirement this way. But pre-GFC in 2007 only 26 per cent believed they would need to follow this strategy. The proportion planning to use business proceeds ...

Grant Samuel bags $800 million mandate

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
... benchmark MSCI World Equity Index, over the last five years. "The Global Equity Shareholder Yield has been popular since the GFC, no question. It has a high running yield, it focuses on companies with free cash flow to create shareholder value," said ...

Seeing evil, hearing evil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011
... to higher interest rates, reduce household wealth and cause a double-D recession. I think it'll cause more than that. Think GFC several times over. But if this scare really, truly is among the major factors that spooked financial markets last night ...

Property managers stifled by lenders

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2011
... have been slow to soften their stance on lending with margins often still over 200bp, around four times where they were pre GFC. "There has been significant commentary from investment professionals stating that now is the right time in the investment ...

Alpha puts its money where its mouth is

RACHEL DAVIS  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2011
... Effective Investing - The Essential Primer' in Sydney on Thursday, 19th May to provide anwers to the questions that matter. The GFC changed the nature of the relationship between investors and their money and for financial advisers; the challenge now ...

Straus-Kahn stress

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2011
The GFC has claimed another victim, and it's no other than the chief of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and French presidential candidate-in-waiting Monsieur Dominique Strauss-Kahn. The 62-year old Strauss-Kahn has been arrested on charges of ...

A-dollar one-point-seven-o

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2011
... later today. This is part of a floating currency's function in restoring equilibrium in the domestic economy. Also, if the GFC has taught us anything, it is that nothing can keep rising (or falling) forever. When most expect they do, then it's the time ...

Innovative platforms create $397 bn industry

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2011
... industry recorded funds under administration (FUA) by end December 2010 of a significant $397 billion, just below its pre-GFC $400 billion 2007 peak These figures, from Rainmaker's latest Advantage report, found the platform sector grew some 6.5 per ...

Charter Hall targets advisers with SMA

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2011
... attract retail investors that have been slow to make their way back into the property sector having been burned during the GFC. "Institutional investors move first, they have done that into direct property in the last 12 months and the retail investors ...

Up, down or sideways

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2011
... perhaps, a few spins around Europe. For the Aussie has risen -- nay, it has flown - from the lows hit at the height of the GFC to levels that were unthinkable those many months ago. Come to think of it, no one expected a royal wedding back then either. ...