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ABDO unveils top investment strategies

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2018
... Pointing to a Credit Suisse global dividend comparison between 1900 to 2016, Campbell said Australia leads the pack on dividend yield. Australian companies paid an average dividend yield of 5.2% per annum and outpaced the world average of 4.1%. In terms ...

Placer Property launches new fund

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2018
... office building in Melbourne which is leased to the University of Melbourne. The building offers a forecast distribution yield of 6.5% per annum. "The establishment of the fund is consistent with our objective to facilitate high quality investment opportunities ...

Housing affordability fuelling negative gearing backlash

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2018
... AIST said interviews conducted with negative gearers featured a near-uniform view that property is a lower risk, higher yield investment than superannuation. The survey shows how significant concern around housing affordability is, including to those ...

Chief economist update: Hostage to speculations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2018
... "hear what they want to hear and see what they want to see." The yen rose to its highest level since November 2016 and the yield on 10-year JGBs doubled (to 0.06% from 0.03%) in early March after financial markets interpreted BOJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda's ...

Labor's imputation credit reform cops industry backlash

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2018
... likely shift investment strategies and potentially higher risk asset allocation in the retirement phase. "Funds seeking yield to deliver retirement income, especially SMSFs which are paying income streams, would need to shift their asset allocation towards ...

Chief economist update: The uncertainty that is Trump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2018
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring ...

Chief economist update: Australia cruising at low altitude

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2018
Toto, we're still in Kansas! The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) National Accounts report showed the economy grew by 2.4% in the year to the December quarter - a tad slower than the 2.5% annual growth rate recorded in the same quarter of last ...

Macrovue bets on 5G technology

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2018
... listings across the world, placed high-returning stocks in a quantitative overlay, and finally selected stocks expected to yield high returns in the medium to long term. The fintech will charge 80 basis points in fees. Investors will be notified quarterly ...

Insto mandate seeds Aviva fund launch

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2018
A global institution is placing $225 million with Aviva Investors to be the asset manager's cornerstone investor for its latest fund launch in Australia. Last month Aviva Investors chief executive Euan Munro revealed the firm, via its new mandate win ...

Chief economist update: New Fed chief, same policy direction (but more transparent)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 FEB 2018
... Bloomberg's headline just about sums up last night's activity on Wall Street that saw the S&P 500 index drop by 1.3%; the yield on 10-year Treasuries climb by three basis points to 2.89%; and the Bloomberg dollar spot index appreciate by 0.6%. Blame ...