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AustralianSuper balanced option returns 13.88% in FY13

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2014
... investment officer and deputy chief executive Mark Delaney said that while returns had again been strong this year, the global recovery remained gradual and uneven, highlighting the importance of a long-term focus. "Yet again, this is a very good one-year ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2014
... good US car sales pushed the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 to record closing highs overnight. And strong recovery in Australian banking stocks was also giving the market a boost, IG Markets dealer Chris Weston said. "Yesterday, the banks ...

New compass needed for global economy: BIS

NATHALIE OLOF-ORS, AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2014
... bankers' central bank -- has warned in its annual report that while the global economy was showing some encouraging signs of recovery from the crushing 2008 financial crisis, the factors that sparked it were still very much in play. If governments fail ...

US bond yields zipped by ZIRP?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2014
... on-going geo-political crisis in Iraq and the Ukraine, concerns over the stock market's valuation, doubts over the global recovery or more specifically, the uncertainty over America's business outlook? Perhaps, it's a combination of all these and punctuated ...

James knows when

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2014
... below 6% and inflation would be closer to 2.0% by year end - it's good for Wall Street for it indicates that the economic recovery has become sustainable. Ipso facto (is this the correct phrase lawyers out there?), there's no longer any need for the ...

Good or bad, it's all good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2014
... the real economy. Over the next few months, infrastructure investments and related sectors will continue to support the recovery. We expect policy makers to continue their current path of accommodative policy stance until the recovery is sustained." ...

LaSalle divests Sydney Sofitel Wentworth

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2014
... expense management, and selective upgrades and refurbishment of the hotel. A This active approach, coupled with the strong recovery we're experiencing in the capital markets, has enabled our fund to exceed its investment objective." LaSalle is one of ...

So bad it's good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2014
... Wait there's more! The more stable four-week moving average of claims has fallen to 311,500 - a fresh low in the current recovery. This is perhaps why, in spite of the daily ups and downs and rounds and rounds on Wall Street, investors have chosen not ...

The name is bonds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2014
... cheap -- and have an unpleasant tendency to sell off faster and further than bonds in bad times. Finally, the strong recovery of equity markets over the last few years has created investment gains for institutions, such as insurance companies and pension ...

Help is on its way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2014
... operations - or off-balance sheet - that is, through purchases of asset-backed securities - could help reduce any drag on the recovery coming from temporary credit supply constraints". If all goes as expected, we should be reading about all these in ...