Home loans soar but business confidence still gloomy

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The number of new owner-occupier housing loans rose by 5.2 per cent in March, the strongest rise in four years. But the share of loans taken up by first home... Read more continue reading

AQR opens Global Risk Premium Trust to Australian platform investors

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AQR Capital Management announced today the introduction of new unit class within the AQR Global Risk Premium Trust designed to make that investment strategy accessible to a larger number of... Read more continue reading

Stratton Street launches in Australia

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London-based investment manager Stratton Street Capital LLP is offering its first fund in Australia, the Stratton Street New Capital Wealthy Nations Bond Fund, for wholesale and institutional investors, with Equity... Read more continue reading

BT Wrap Capital Protection expands fund menu

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BT has expanded the list of managed funds eligible for Wrap Capital Protection from over 80 to more than 150 following strong take-up by dealer groups and advisers. “Since the... Read more continue reading

15 key takeouts from RBA report

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The Reserve Bank has made only subtle changes to its forecasts on inflation and no change to forecasts on economic growth. Reserve Bank general views haven’t become more negative or... Read more continue reading

SPAA supports first move to establish Council of Super Custodians

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The SMSF Professionals’ Association of Australia (SPAA) has supported the Government taking the first step to set up a Council of Superannuation Custodians. The Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation, Bill... Read more continue reading

Weekly economic & market update

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Share markets continued to move ahead over the past week helped by a combination of reasonable profit results, a further fading of the fiscal austerity fetish in Europe with France... Read more continue reading

AMP Limited reports first quarter cashflows and AUM

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AMP Limited today reported cashflows for AMP Financial Services (AFS) and AMP Group assets under management (AUM) for the first quarter to 31 March 2013. AFS net cashflows were $95... Read more continue reading

ETFs and ETPs reach all-time high of US2.13 trillion

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Record net inflows of US$83 billion through the end of April helped to push assets invested globally in Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) and Exchange Traded Products (ETPs) to a new... Read more continue reading

Listed infrastructure securities can deliver diversification

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Omega Global Investors has pointed to the growth and returns of its recently launched Global Listed Infrastructure fund as evidence of the benefits of taking a risk adjusted approach to this... Read more continue reading