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Super fund members want a safe bet

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 6 SEP 2007
Super fund members do not want to expose their retirement funds to high risk investments with 42 per cent preferring a combination of all risk classes and only 15 per cent preferring a higher risk investment, according to a Quadrant survey. Tasmanian ...

ADPIA lobbies for fin literacy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2007
... the industrywide call for better investor education after thousands of mum-and-dads lost $1 billion on high yield but high risk investment products. Speaking at a conference this week, Linden Toll, president of the Australian Direct Property Investment ...

Debenture devil in the detail

... to PIR, the property-backed securities sector is a $22 billion market of which around $2 billion are from unrated or high risk debenture products. "But what's happening is that investors are pulling out of the entire market because they think it's all ...

Economic round-up: Market shivers

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2007
... 185.6 points or 1.4 per cent, and 19.6 points or 1.3 per cent, respectively. An index that tracks the sub-prime, or high risk, mortgage market in the US hit a low last week as a group of Wall Street banks attempted to bail-out two hedge funds that suffered ...

Deutsche Xenon leveraged hedge fund recommended

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2007
... refreshing change for these types of products." Zenith said the XAP3 was most suitable for investors who could tolerate high risk investments and understood the risks of leveraging. Zenith also said the product could be most suitable to investors with ...

AML to redefine dealings with currency clients

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAR 2007
... you don't want to keep too few so you breach AML." "[However], the legislation doesn't say dealing with a customer is high risk. [But] it does say you must determine if you want to deal with that customer." Carol Beamier, global AML practice leader for ...

Absolute returns not high risk

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 NOV 2006
... VanMac Global Partners, said, "Absolute return strategies add to diversification. It's a complete misnomer to say its high risk." Ryan Pearson, senior vice president of GreenwichVan Alternative Investments, said, "Hedge funds are not necessarily a high ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 10 OCT 2006
... targeted as well as senior executives with annual renumeration above $1 million. The tax office says that about 6,000 high risk investors will be assessed for their compliance with capital gains requirements. So far this year 1.1 million people have ...

Absolutely, positively Naos

Absolute return fund manager, Naos Asset Management, plans to differentiate itself from the rest of the boutique herd by tailoring its products to the needs of an overlooked sub-segment of high-net worth investors. Managing director Mona Makaj said ...

High net worth tax crack down

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 18 AUG 2006
... capital gains and arrangements to avoid or minimise capital gains tax. Under the second year of Project Wickenby 6,000 high risk individual investor's declarations will be checked to see if they have declared capital gains while 250,000 individuals can ...