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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2007
... to $142.80, while suitor BHP was down 55 cents or 1.3 per cent to $41.92. Mr Vaughn said the banks were worth keeping any eye on with Macquarie Group up $1.67, 2.06 per cent, at $82.57 at 1206 AEDT. "Macquarie Bank is up nearly two per cent today, and ...

Low frills, high returns

... pick the top 40 based on five-year risk adjusted total returns and cashflow profile. Keep the stock churn low and keep an eye on the after-tax returns and, presto, you have a fund that has genuinely created "alpha", according to Mercer figures. This ...

ASFA elects new board members

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2007
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) has elected Russel Mason and Nicolette Rubinsztein to its board of directors, following the departure of David Holston and Brian Bissaker. Mason is a worldwide partner with Mercer, while Rubinsztein ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2007
... and the Nasdaq lost 78 points. Merrill, the world's largest brokerage, reported a $US2.3 billion ($A2.57 billion) loss and eye-popping write-downs of $US7.9 billion ($A8.81 billion) for bad bets on mortgages and leveraged loans. Standard & Poor's cut ...

The worm turns

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2007
Media mentionitis surrounding channel Nine's controversial worm seems to have stolen the limelight from economic aspects of the election campaign, but the latest PPI figures could turn the spotlight. While tax cut plans and economic debate have been ...

Power to the under-40s

... won this year's AFA Rising Star of the Year Award, said there is more to the under-40s segment of the market than meets the eye. Browne was a business development manager at MLC before he decided to become an adviser more than two years ago, specialising ...

IFSA to release new guidelines

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 18 OCT 2007
... possible changes following the federal election next month. "When the industry's growing strongly, you must never take your eye off the best of compliance and culture," he said. He said the guidelines would "ever improve the compliance culture and the ...

Investors eye emerging markets infrastructure

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2007
Credit Suisse is tapping into the growing demand for global alternative assets when it launched a product that will give Australian investors faster and cheaper access to the $1.12 trillion emerging markets infrastructure sector. Subject to regulatory ...

MPG eyes commercial property

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2007
Melbourne based property funds manager MPG Funds Management (MPG) has launched its $62 million Enterprise Property Trust (Trust) to allow Australian investors access to commercial properties within Australia. The company aims to raise more than $17 ...

AUSCOAL mines long term returns

The chief executive of top-performing super fund AUSCOAL has defended the fund's fixed income strategy and urged members to keep their eyes on the long term benefits of the fund's investment approach. "While AUSCOAL's Bond Fund's strategy was ranked ...