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ThreeSixty Research signs on Zenith

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2009
... Zenith's national investment research footprint has increased by two-thirds in size in response to increasing deals and interest by financial firms in the research house. The relationship with Zenith follows the appointment of Lonsec in April 2007 as ...

Sunsuper grows member appeal through advice

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2009
Sunsuper's pension product has attracted 70 new members and roughly $20 million in inflows every month thanks mainly to its new financial planning program. The fund's pension, Today and Tomorrow, hit the $500 million mark in funds under administration ...

PM Capital readies for recovery

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2009
... worked at Babcock & Brown and has five years financial markets experience in analysing and implementing currency and interest rate strategies and overseeing income and credit portfolios. Cuthbertson previously worked at BNP Paribas, BT Funds Management ...

CalPERS endorses best practice in PE

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2009
... Third is transparency, where general partners should provide greater detail to investors about fees generated, carried interest profits received and underlying portfolio company performance. "As our capital commitment to private equity grows, it is important ...

Property still in favour

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2009
... capping of the concessional threshold for super contributions at $50,000 for those aged 50 and above. The increasing interest in property has been spurred by low interest rates and a desire to invest in their home for capital gain, said Robert Caulfield ...

Expect the unexpected

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2009
... last week. Echoing the G-20, the Bank of Canada and the Reserve Bank of New Zealand even went so far as declaring that interest rates would remain at present levels until the second half of next year. Minutes of the Reserve Bank of Australia's Board ...

Cambridge Strategy opens shop in Sydney

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2009
... excess of $1 billion in alpha programs - from the markets in North America (US and Canada), Europe, Asia and a developing interest in the Middle East, since it opened for business in 2004. The firm's philosophy is based on the belief that risk management ...

Depends on the data

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2009
You know Australia is back to normal when "they will, they won't" speculation on interest rates returns a major sport. This is usually accompanied by "they will earlier, they will later" betting with every economic data release providing evidence for ...

SRI super option blitzes market

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2009
... Shares option, which returned more than 2 per cent. The fund's cash option returned 1.4 per cent and its diversified fixed interest option returned over 2.5 per cent during the same time period. Mark Delaney, deputy chief executive and chief investments ...

Greenback weakness not all good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2009
... went into freefall during the Asian Crisis of 1997/98. A precipitous fall in the greenback would push US inflation up, interest rates up, economy down. Back to square one. So recent headlines welcoming the fall in the US dollar as a sign of better things ...