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Saved by the Fed

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2008
Troubled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will be reborn in a four-pillar strategy put forward by the US government - a move that brought fast relief to the credit markets. After more than a month of deliberations, the Treasury, the Federal ...

Boutique incubators work best: Russell

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2008
... "One of the key drivers behind the good results that you see from boutique fund managers early on in their lifecycles is a focus on building a track record. When a firm sets up, almost the only thing on their mind is investment performance. They have ...

US payrolls jitters

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2008
Here we go again. If the overnight performance of the European and US stockmarkets are anything to go by, Asian and Australian equities are in for another rough trading day. Wall Street and European bourses tumbled last night as fears of a global slowdown ...

Grove opens term deposit shop

BY STAFF  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2008
... to twelve months, we have seen a change in what customers expect from their investments...there is a definite increased focus on the stability and reputation of the institution they are looking to invest with," said Carlos Vieco, Rabobank's finance manager ...

Hedge fund to invest $500m into carbon capture

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2008
... in carbon capture projects to create tradable greenhouse gas reduction abatement securities. The investment projects will focus on adaptive technology that will be attached to smokestacks of utility companies and high level greenhouse gas producing companies ...

Perennial's global alpha secret

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2008
Perennial Global Shares High Alpha fund returned 1.68 per cent last month, more than double its benchmark's 0.67 per cent gain. But for a fund with an impressive two-year track record, only a small pool of investors has heard about it. The fund was ...

ETS or carbon tax, still same problem

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2008
... your target cap anyway. These arguments also highlight why Regardless of which way the government turns, "there is too much focus on oil prices. The real problem is we need more and more energy for the way we live and we have to invest in projects to ...

Fitzpatrick vacates VFMC chair

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2008
... establishment of a new in-house management platform that already manages 20 per cent of the State's assets. "Throughout, the focus on long term investment outcomes has been maintained, with investment returns averaging 10 per cent per annum over the ...

Advisers open doors to $50k clients

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2008
Advisers are willing to take on clients with funds as little as $50,000 in a bid to win new business amidst tough market conditions, new research shows. A new survey by Nielson, commissioned by ING Australia, noted that an increasing number of advisers ...

Manage ideas not just money

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2008
... investment service in Australasia, said investment managers are really intellectual property business so why not shift their focus to managing ideas rather than just money. Russell then implements the best combination of these ideas, enabling significant ...