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Super funds evolve towards direct property: AMP

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2011
... but now finding new investment solutions. Judd said the offshore market was broken into two components with the large sovereign funds such as GIC that are trending away from investing widely held vehicles and creating their own direct real estate portfolios ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2011
... revealed a gloomier outlook for the economy, but says the pain will be much worse if eurozone countries do not solve their sovereign debt crisis. LONDON - Britain will spend STG30 billion ($A47 billion) on major infrastructure projects over the next ...

OECD: Economy to grow by 4% next year

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 29 NOV 2011
... this boost is temporary and will fade away." The OECD also delivered an ominous warning to Europe, warning that the sovereign debt crisis was a major threat to the world economy. "Prospects only improve if decisive action is taken quickly," said Padoan. ...

SSgA: Minimise volatilty to protect vulnerable investors

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2011
... classes are available. Cash interest rates are falling and fixed-income assets are under pressure with concerns about sovereign bonds in the US and Europe." According to Engel, equity strategy that focuses on company characteristics that deliver more ...

Market Wrap- Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2011
... the second day in a row but were relatively better performers than US and European bourses, which sold off on renewed sovereign debt concerns. At the close on Tuesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 30 points, or 0.72 per cent, at 4,133, while ...

Dead calm

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2011
... There was really nothing significantly fresh out in terms of financial cyberspace news out last night. The European sovereign debt crisis remains a crisis. The cost of three-month Spanish bills auctioned last night more than doubled and the yield of ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 NOV 2011
... indicators, providing more evidence that the economy has picked up speed. But that optimism was overtaken by worries about the sovereign debt crisis rocking Europe. LONDON - European stock markets closed mostly lower after a modest technical bounce as ...

Prettiest of them all

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 NOV 2011
... September quarter as the world worried over the first downgrade in 70 years of America's AAA credit rating and the European sovereign debt crisis and their plan. Now in the final quarter of the year 2011, global growth concerns - and contagion -- continue ...

Reverse contagion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2011
... 3.0-3.5% lows hit during the GFC. Investors are buying bunds at a time when the region is suffering from a crisis in sovereign bonds! Seems to me that the contagion stops at Germany. Or it could be a harbinger of a German recession. Nah. The German yield ...

Australia's retirement system the most sustainable in the world

RACHEL DAVIS  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2011
... pension systems in an effort to make them more sustainable. A key driver of the PSI results this year was the increase in sovereign debt as a result of the financial crisis, with Greece and Ireland the most affected. In Asia, comprehensive pension systems ...