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New performance reporting standards for retail funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAY 2010
... implementing a new investment reporting format that will require retail super funds to revert back to performance figures gross of any ongoing and advice fees. The objective is to facilitate comparability of super fund returns across sectors, especially ...

AMP Cap maintains high tenancy rate

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2010
... across the country," he said. The AMP Capital Wholesale Office fund is an open-ended unlisted trust with $2.4 billion in gross assets.

Global Sovereign Crisis

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2010
... in the "too late the hero" basket, but what surprises me is that many still react to their announcements. Pimco Boss Bill Gross is not as kind. In his May investment outlook, Gross wrote that in recent years ratings agencies have displayed little "second ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2010
... per cent, at 22,121.43. Turnover was $HK57.96 billion ($A8.04 billion). China is scheduled on Thursday to release data on gross domestic product in the first-quarter and consumer prices in March. WELLINGTON - The New Zealand share market closed firmer ...

BOQ buys St Andrews insurance

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2010
... Queensland to buy the consumer credit insurance and life insurance products that St Andrews distributes. St Andrew's has a annual gross written premium of $75 million and approximately 165,000 policyholders. St Andrew's' investments, superannuation ...

PIMCO Australia draws record $30bn FUM

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2010
... when government bonds disrupted the historical risk/return profile of bonds and equities, giving rise to PIMCO head Bill Gross' oft-quoted phrase, the markets entering the 'new normal' in returns. Proof of the fund's top quartile performance, the Australian ...

Still waiting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAR 2010
... sage continues. And in Asia, Bloomberg reports that Shanghai's economy has now exceeded that of Hong Kong's. "Shanghai's gross domestic product grew 8.2 percent to the equivalent of $218.3 billion in 2009 compared with a 2.7 percent contraction to $210.7 ...

VTP board backs capital return to shareholders

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2010
... Associates, unanimously backed the plan, which involves a capital return that would amount to about 95 per cent of VTP's gross tangible assets. That capital return would be funded by the sale of shares held in the investment portfolio. Shareholders are ...

Goldman Sachs backs Greek swap deal

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2010
... transactions cut Greece's foreign denominated debt in Euro by more than A$3 billion, lowering the country's debt as a percentage of gross domestic product (GDP) by just 1.6 per cent. Goldman Sachs said Greece's financial position could have been far ...

Baby steps

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2010
... damage (wait, I somehow recall saying early in the year to underweight bonds didn't I?) This is what Pimco's boss, Bill Gross, told Reuters: "I don't think the Fed dares increase the fed funds or policy rate in the face of unemployment at double-digit ...