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Gotta love gold

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 SEP 2010
... nearly 67 per cent to its investors. This is a superb performance for what was once considered a non-appreciating, non-interest bearing asset. In the late 1990s, gold lost its glitter as European central banks unloaded their gold reserve holdings unto ...

EQT buys OAMPS Super Fund

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 27 SEP 2010
Equity Trustees will pay $10 million to buy OAMPS Super Fund from the Wesfarmers Group. According to a press statement released this morning, EQT will add around $265 million in funds under management to EquitySuper, EQT's superannuation business, following ...

Industry assoc review goals and growth

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 24 SEP 2010
... from Canberra is around unity and consistency of message and obviously that means aligning together on areas of common interest - that doesn't mean you have to tie the knot." Mark Rantall, FPA chief executive, also noted collaboration could be on the ...

Hedge fund adviser gets $2.7m fine

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 24 SEP 2010
... managers could access each others' trading positions and trade reports, and could consult with each other about companies of interest. They also reported to a single chief investment officer who supervised the firm's portfolios, and were not prohibited ...

SSgA ETF targets high yields

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2010
... manager at SSgA, confirmed Citigroup has signed up as a market maker for the product, and while it's still early days, interest from planners and platforms has been strong. SSgA expects the ETF to go live on the 29th of September. The firm is not the ...

CalPERS taps Brazilian real estate

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2010

Investors shun social media, for now

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2010
... investor relations purposes, but as more of them begin to spread information through social media, there will be more interest, said FCR managing director Anthony Tregoning. Tregoning said a recent example of investors using social media for monitoring ...

Indian pension funds poised for growth

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2010
... how quickly it occurs." Atul Phull, of Guggenheim Capital Management, sees obvious parallels to the explosion of retail interest in US equity markets following the "Roth IRA" reforms to 401k's in the mid 2000's. ""It's the same story repeating itself ...

Much ado over more of the same

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2010
... things have happened since the recession ended last June, nothing much has changed. The Fed decided to leave its policy interest rate where it was since December 2008 -- at 0 to 0.25 per cent - because "Information received since the Federal Open Market ...

PIMCO Aus adds investment specialist

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2010
... has joined the asset manager from Suncorp Metway where he served as a treasury dealer in the insurance house's fixed interest/money market sales team. Dale will work with the financial planning sector to increase understanding of fixed interest for investors ...