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AustralianSuper awards QIC $500m mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 APR 2010
Australia's largest industry fund, the $30 billion-plus AustralianSuper, has poured $500 million into QIC Global Real Estate's QIC Property Fund - an investment that makes up 15.2 per cent of the super fund's total property portfolio. Announcing the ...

The retaking of Dow 11000

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 APR 2010
... close at 11,019.42 points. Likewise, the S&P 500 index itself is just 2.7 points (0.2 per cent) shy of its own 1,200 high water mark. While some market commentators were quick to dismiss the Dow's assault on 11,000 as sheer manipulation owing to last ...

Investors get $250m compensation for crook advice

FSA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2010
Unsuitable advice on pension switching in the UK still abound - prompting the UK's Financial Services Authority to publish new findings that will see advice firms pay $250 million in compensation to investors. The FSA found that a number of firms were ...

Fitch scare

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2010
"Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water..." (Jaws 2) Yes, Virginia...just when financial markets looked like they're finally getting used to the idea that Greece - for all its foibles - would not be left in ruins, Fitch comes along ...

Global instos flock to Asian infrastructure

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2010
... range of infrastructure assets including toll roads, transportation assets, power generation, electricity transmission, water supply and waste management. Capital commitments came from a range of institutional and high net worth investors including US ...

Risk-free no more

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAR 2010
Now we've seen it all! It's all over the headlines. A handful of US corporates are deemed better able to pay their debt than the US government! Bloomberg reports that bonds offered by Berkshire Hathaway, Proctor and Gamble, Johnson and Johnson and Lowe's ...

Land of the free money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2010
... to Wall Street's performance at the closing bell. S&P 500 up 0.8 per cent, Dow up 0.4 per cent. It's the same "threading water" show we've seen over the past few days (weeks?). But I'd like to add that despite this, US equities have been slowly - but ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAR 2010
... 32.1 points, or 0.66 per cent, to 4,799.4. NEW YORK - US stocks posted mostly modest gains on Monday as investors treaded water on the eve of a Federal Reserve monetary policy meeting and digested a new financial reform plan in the Senate. The Dow Jones ...

Diversify risk, not assets

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAR 2010
... security and climate change as key areas to tap due to the underinvestments in the sectors. Investments in these areas include water, power, road and rail, air and seaports.

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAR 2010
The Australian sharemarket is expected to open higher with Wall Street posting modest gains in late afternoon trade amid negative home sales data and positive news on retail sales and unemployment benefits. At 0804 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange ...