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          <title>A peak at Oil Search</title>
          <description><![CDATA[Oil Search is an oil and gas exploration and development company that operates all of Papua New Guinea’s (PNG’s) productive oil and gas fields. There are a number of reasons why I like the stock.]]></description>
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          <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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          <title>Finding a GEM</title>
          <description><![CDATA[G8 Education Limited is the only child care centre operator listed in Australia (ASX code: GEM) and there are a number of reasons why I like the stock.]]></description>
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          <pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 </pubDate>
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          <title>China: lost in transition</title>
          <description><![CDATA[During March 2012 members of Perpetual’s Multi Manager Investment Team travelled through China. The focus was on private market investments. In Hong Kong and Mainland China we visited a broad spectrum of private market fund managers, visited the outposts of our developed market private equity managers, toured commercial and residential property developments and, visited local subsidiaries of some western owned and listed companies. ]]></description>
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          <pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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          <title>Budget 2012 – losing interest?</title>
          <description><![CDATA[What did the 2012 federal budget mean for fixed income investors?]]></description>
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          <pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 </pubDate>
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          <title>Our progress on responsible investment</title>
          <description><![CDATA[Perpetual today released its second annual Responsible Investment Report on Progress. Find out how we're tracking.]]></description>
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          <pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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          <title>European socialists celebrate Bastille Day</title>
          <description><![CDATA[Economic data and election results over the weekend have sparked a new round of concerns for global investors. ]]></description>
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          <pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 15:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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          <title>The news at News Corp</title>
          <description><![CDATA[Recently there’s been a lot of bad press about News Corp and the phone-hacking scandal that’s embroiled its UK newspapers. However despite this, we continue to favour the stock as the UK newspapers represent only a fraction of its overall business.]]></description>
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          <pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2012 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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          <title>RBA cuts rates, All Ords cracks 4,500</title>
          <description><![CDATA[The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) lowered its target cash rate by 0.5% to 3.75% today, which represented its first reduction in four meetings and the third reduction in its current easing cycle (which began in November 2011).]]></description>
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          <pubDate>Tue, 01 May 2012 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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          <title>Not so dangerous Royal Wolf</title>
          <description><![CDATA[Royal Wolf is a provider of portable container solutions to the resources, construction and manufacturing industries in Australia and New Zealand. It came to our attention in May last year when General Finance Corporation floated just under half the company on the Australian Securities Exchange.]]></description>
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          <pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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          <title>Default stats - what do they tell us?</title>
          <description><![CDATA[Standard &amp; Poor’s recently released their 2011 Annual Global Default Study and Ratings Transitions Report. Find out what we think the results suggest for investors. ]]></description>
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          <pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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          <title>Hybrids - debt or equity?</title>
          <description><![CDATA[In the current investment environment, Australian investors are seeking high levels of consistent income. This pursuit for return on capital is evident from investors taking up almost $5 billion worth of corporate bonds and hybrid securities in the first quarter of the year.]]></description>
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          <pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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          <title>Is the party over for retail property?</title>
          <description><![CDATA[There is a lot of debate within the property investment community about whether the party is over for retail property. Anecdotal evidence of the number of empty shops on your local shopping strip will definitely support this view.]]></description>
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          <pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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          <title>What is concerning investors now?</title>
          <description><![CDATA[Global investor sentiment improved significantly in the new year as closure of the European Greek solution, combined with a massive liquidity injection from the European Central Bank (ECB) and signs of improvement in the US economy, prompted an extended period of ‘risk on’ in markets.

However, more recently the continued disappointing European economic data combined with an end to the ECB’s liquidity injections (and the US Federal Reserve’s announcement that its often cited QEIII program had been suspended) saw the market’s four month rally peter-out fairly quickly.]]></description>
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          <pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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          <title>Breville on the boil</title>
          <description><![CDATA[The share price of small electrical goods supplier, Breville, has made a stellar climb since the start of the year, especially since it issued an earnings update at the end of January. In February, it reported a strong H1 FY2011 net-profit-after-tax increase of 41%.]]></description>
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          <pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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          <title>More worried about China or Spain?</title>
          <description><![CDATA[There was quite a sharp market reaction to Chinese trade data this week. On Monday, China recorded its first trade deficit in 22 years. While this is a significant development, it is not so bad that it signals a major slowing underway in China. ]]></description>
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          <pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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          <title>Should the RBA cut rates?</title>
          <description><![CDATA[Should there be some political pressure applied to the RBA to lower interest rates and reduce pressure on the Australian dollar?]]></description>
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          <pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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          <title>The default you have when you’re not having a default</title>
          <description><![CDATA[Could this really be the beginning of the end for the Greek debt problem that has plagued financial markets for the past three years? ]]></description>
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          <pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 10:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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          <title>Should investors look at the small picture?</title>
          <description><![CDATA[This week's economic data in Australia has confirmed what Australia's company reporting season has been telling us; there is only modest growth momentum in both the economy and earnings at present. ]]></description>
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          <pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2012 </pubDate>
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          <title>Investing in a changing climate</title>
          <description><![CDATA[Some interesting climate news over the weekend, with US Department of Energy estimating that global CO2 emissions for 2010 increased by a massive 6% over 2009 making it a record year both in the pace of the increase and total emissions. We have also seen a number of studies recently which use statistical analysis to explore links between some weather events and climate change including the 2010 Russian heat wave, increased risk of extreme rainfall in the northern hemisphere and English floods in 2000.]]></description>
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          <pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 11:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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