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Darby buys into Mexican housing

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2010
Darby Overseas Investments, the private equity arm of Franklin Templeton, continue to put more money into the Mexican housing finance market after this month injecting funds into construction finance firm Controladora Vertice. Darby said that its financial ...

Yuan revaluation drives hedge fund flows

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2010
... Arbitrage and other special situations) received the majority of new investor capital, followed by equity hedge funds, and macro funds focusing on global currency, commodity and interest rate positions. By geographic focus, the report found that investors ...

Market Wrap - Midmorning

MARKET WRAP - MIDDAY  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2010
... already been revised downwards and if the data came in lower than the revision, it wasn't going to be pretty. "The whole macro-economic backdrop has really overshadowed the earnings season as well," he said. In the resources sector on the local bourse ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 AUG 2010
... going too badly, but there was continued uncertainty about the outlook. "The thematic seems to be that the international macro-economic environment is trumping any domestic progress as far as the share market is concerned," he said. Wall Street closed ...

DB's Boyton sees "slow, steady decline" in Aussie housing

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 20 AUG 2010
Deutsche Bank Australia chief economist Adam Boyton weighed in on one of the hottest topics within wealth management at the Deutsche Asset Management conference this morning in Sydney. "The long-term trajectory I think for house prices in Australia ...

Legg Mason Permal Global Absolute Trust earns high rating

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 20 AUG 2010
... scenarios including the state of the Yen, commodities, emerging markets and alternative strategies with a focus on global macro investing. According to Legg Mason, the fund aims to produce a gross return of 8 - 10 per cent annualised over a market cycle ...

Ipac boosts insurance-related investments

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 AUG 2010
... settlements as well, and the reason they're attractive is that the driver of their pay off profile is clearly not linked to macro economic and corporate developments," he said. While the Palmetto fund has returned better than stocks and bonds over the ...

Nightmare on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 AUG 2010
... what are we meant to infer if they fall next week? That US economic growth is strengthening? If this is so, the American macro-economy is now behaving like the financial markets - up one day, down the next, up the day after. I've never heard of an economy ...

Bending it like Bernanke

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 AUG 2010
... night, the statement read, "the pace of recovery in output and employment has slowed in recent months". Really? Has the macro-economic environment changed that much in less than two months? I think this is just the Fed justifying its decision to pander ...

Solaris struggles to find local gems

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 5 AUG 2010
Denis Donohue, managing director at Solaris Investment Management, said the investment team is finding it difficult to find alpha in the local market as macroeconomic issues continue to cloud prospects for many businesses. Donohue said news from debt-ridden ...