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Investors leave mortgage funds

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2011
... formerly frozen funds, ratings agency Standard & Poor's said today. The research house said funds in its Australian Fixed Interest - Mortgages peer group were experiencing more outflows than inflows. The funds had all continued to deliver monthly income ...

Bear have no fur

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2011
... They reduce companies' input costs and raise profit margins. They bring down inflation and reduce upward pressure on interest rates. "Uncle Buck is back. Currency markets are also referred to as leaders to stocks. Trading volume is huge, but more driven ...

FPA urge Treasury to revise legis

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2011
... FPA Week starts on Monday 23 May with a focus on opening doors into the world of planning for consumers and generating interest in the field.

Planners risk trouble opposing FOFA

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2011
... to comments by Jenni Mack, chairwoman of consumer group Choice, who has argued that consumers loath the conflicts of interest created by commissions, volume payments and vertical integration where product makers own dealer groups and advisory firms. ...

US to avoid default, EM stocks to rise: Janus

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
... possibility of default to be extremely unlikely. But if it did occur, the US would lose its AAA sovereign credit rating, interest rates would rise dramatically unravelling the financial system and pushing the US into a worse recession than the GFC. But ...

Avoca patient on industrials evolution

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
... little or no debt and long term growth potential. "Our process is about assessing how things will look once things like interest rates and consumer spending normalise and if conditions are bad for the next three years, it doesn't stop us investing in ...

No minute message in FOMC minutes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
... FOMC minutes revealed that while members have started deliberations toward normalising monetary policy - read, raising interest rates from abnormally low levels - this wouldn't be happening anytime soon. And - once the decision's made -- we would be ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
... the Fed minutes sent bond prices lower because some of the central bank's members said it might need to start easing interest rates higher this year to guard against inflation. The higher price drove the yield of the 10-year Treasury note up to 3.17 ...

Charter Hall lands $266m Woolworths portfolio

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2011
Charter Hall has acquired a $266 million share in the Woolworths portfolio, with strong interest generated from institutional investors, private investors and syndicators. The listed property group secured eight of the properties available within the ...

Bank profits exceed 25 per cent

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2011
Australia's bank profit margins exceeded 25 per cent with the big four earning more than 80 per cent of total interest income, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority said in its Quarterly Bank Performance Statistics report today. The big four ...