Jim Jubak: Go for high yield stocks
I can’t say that right now it is the best time to invest in yield stocks but Jubak here describes the good valuation and fundamentals of why good high yielding stocks should be added in these times.
A glance at all 3 counters would show that actually their yield do not match up to what we […]
Macquarie defends its infrastructure model
By Robert Wright in London
Published: May 19 2008 17:47 | Last updated: May 19 2008 17:47
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A senior executive at Australia’s Macquarie has said that the bank’s business model for infrastructure investment is “alive […]
Assets Divestments at Macquarie Group, Babcock & Brown and Allco
Dividend & Income investors in Singapore would be scratching their head recently by the drastic fall in share price of Babcock and Brown Global Investment and Macquarie International Infrastructure fund.
BBGI dropped drastically to its current price of 29cts, a far cry from the 1 dollar it was trading at a year ago.
MIIF plunge from 76cents […]
Macquarie International Infrastructure Fund (MIIF) quarter review
Its time to screw MIIF. The infrastruture play that people say good and others say that it is deeply suspect.
They just released their quarterly report and by all figures it looks like they are suffering the effects of this global slowdown.
Net income was 25 million vs 145 million in the same period last year. This […]
Would you buy a bridge from this man?
By Fortune Magazine [October 2 2007]
Macquarie Bank has made infrastructure funds a smoking-hot investment class. But the way it finances its deals has short-sellers circling, writes Fortune’s Bethany McLean.
(Fortune Magazine) — "This is the greatest single financial coup in the history of Chicago." That’s how alderman Edward Burke, chairman of the city council’s finance committee, […]
Infrastructure Funds: Building on strong foundations
From the Financial Times [Thursday , March 13, 2008]
The appetite for infrastructure funds looks set to increase again this year
This year pension funds and other institutional investors allocate new or larger commitments to an asset class they see as delivering attractive, steady, inflation-adjusted returns over a long duration. The turbulence in equities market and the […]
Macquarie International Infrastructure: Attractive Dividend Yield
We just received our MIIF Annual Report. To be honest i have been looking forward to reading it since the presentation slides provided at SGX wasn’t revealing a whole lot of numbers.
Since hitting a high of 1.20, it has retreated to a low of 83 cents last week. In this itself, we can draw a […]
