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Room for Russia in BRIC

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2010
Many investors are convinced of the growth story behind Brazil, India and China - but does anyone know what's happening in Russia? In Sydney this week, Mark Edwards, vice president of global fund manager T. Rowe Price, said he disagrees with the view ...

Fund managers pick what's hot in 2010

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2009
... wouldn't expose many surprises. "We predict the ASX 200 will trade up to 5,600 by December 2010 driven by the cyclical growth story, which will continue into 2011," said Lucas. These predictions come after a HSBC quarterly international fund manager ...

Brand survey highlights top banks

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2009
... customers justifying the move. Christopher Zinn, media spokesperson at CHOICE, said satisfaction surveys only tell part of the story. "There's a lot of satisfaction surveys and the banks are really good at coming up with good ones that show how satisfied ...

SSFS ushers Asian Century in $1bn global equities overhaul

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2009
... of the emerging markets asset class). Conventional wisdom suggests that many super funds are capturing the Asian Growth story through their domestic equities bias and through global equities managers allocating money into these markets. SSFS, however ...

Trustees snub Asian equities

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2009
Trustees of the country's largest super funds are yet to buy the Asia Growth story, with new research suggesting their asset allocation to the region will be around 2.8 per cent of their total allocation, a tiny increase from the current 2.5 per cent ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2009
... share price index contract was 23 points higher at 4,788, on a volume of 9,591 contracts. "I Still think it's a commodities story," Bell Financial Group senior adviser Chris Kimber said. "BHP is up again and Rio was up in New York, and of course gold ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2009
... the US tomorrow and the half day on Friday," he said. "So, as expected, there are low volumes and that's going to be the story for the rest of the week." Mr Kimber said BHP Billiton's shares had lifted after speculation Chinalco would sell its stake ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2009
... where they've made a fair bit of cash over the last few months, and getting into other areas where they can see the growth story is starting to move."

Cheap linkers up for grabs: Credit Agricole

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2009
... high return. "And from then, global linkers have recovered...imagine if there's more inflation to come, it will be another story [with linkers outperforming nominals]," she said. Vic-Philippe also pointed out that while talk of inflation continues to ...

Boiling frog

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2009
Slow cooked. Is the Reserve Bank of Australia slowly boiling the Australian economy alive? I refer, of course, to the story of the 'boiling frog' - often used as an anecdote to describe the financial markets' failure to respond to significant modifications ...