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Global property revival

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2009
Local investors are dipping their toes back into property market but are opting for well-diversified global property trusts instead of concentrated A-REITs. According to Mick O'Brien, chief executive of Invesco Australia, the firm continues to receive ...

Make love not leverage

Financial Fools' Day is what some 4,000 anti-everything protesters dubbed the day when leaders of the G20 meet to hold a summit on 'how do we solve a problem like the GFC?' The protesters were railing against almost every issue known to man it seems. ...

Legalsuper members make a choice

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2009
... investment choice. Members also openly voiced their opinions on the fund's performance and operations. Judging the fund from a macro level, a "small portion" of members has made negative comments about the fund, mainly about recent losses in investments ...

Currency cushions GFC hangover

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2009
... - which last year lost only 1 per cent compared to some of its peers which lost up to 40 per cent. Joe Bracken, head of macro strategies at BT Investment Management, said the fund has been attracting "a lot of interest" by institutional investors in ...

Mercer expands property and Aust eq

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2009
... on 16 March from Blackrock in the US where he was a member of the investment research team for over two years conducting macro and capital markets analysis of US and Asia-Pacific markets for investment committees as well as undertaking investment evaluations ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2009
The Australian stock market was deeply in the red at midday, following negative leads from overseas overnight, but local gold stocks were higher. At 1204 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 82 points, or 2.37 per cent, at 3,382.3, while the ...

Don't punish fin services for GFC: Pearce

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2009
... "As the fourth largest managed funds market in the world, Australia's financial system bears particular importance to the macro-economy. Almost all Australians compulsorily participate in mandated savings, directly connected to the markets though superannuation. ...

Pearce rejects "sloppy" league tables

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 17 FEB 2009
... will not take individual investment options into account," he said. "By ignoring investment options and relying only upon macro fund performance, the data is compromised and potentially inaccurate and misleading." Pearce's comments echo the sentiment ...

BT unveils manager line up

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2009
... investment solutions, Patrick Farrell. Investment Solutions 'top-down' investment strategy, taking into account a range of macro, socio-economic and geopolitical factors, will be led by Felix Stephen in his role as manager, strategy & research. Five ...

BT Global Macro gains three stars

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2009
Standard & Poor's has assigned a 'three star' rating to the BT Global Macro fund. The BT Global Macro fund uses a single manager multi strategy approach to portfolio construction. According to Standard & Poor's, the BT fund doesn't take large intra ...