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Term deposit with a twist

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2008
... Macquarie Deposit plus Access 200 (DPA 200). It is 90 per cent invested in a term deposit that provides an annual fixed interest payment with the remaining 10 per cent invested in the S&P/ASX 200 index. Investors should ideally hang onto the product ...

Free money can be costly

BENJAMIN ONG  |  SUNDAY, 23 NOV 2008
... defer investments both on expectations of cheaper building, machinery and equipment prices and also because of high real interest rates (interest rate adjusted for inflation/deflation). This is the reason why for instance, US monetary policy could still ...

Passport to profit

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2008
Securitor is taking the profitability of its 462 planners' business seriously - the dealer group has launched a new "Passport to Profit" program to fine-tune four areas of its members' business structures to improve their bottom lines. Neil Younger ...

Platforms should adopt insto approach

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2008
Platforms should adopt an institutional approach to product selection, rather than merely responding to short-term trends, said Bruce Murphy executive director, distribution, Macquarie Funds Group. Murphy said the bear market would likely lead to a ...

Social investment MIS targets community projects

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2008
... investment product that allows people to invest in the non-profit and charity sectors and still draw competitive fixed interest type returns of five to six per cent. The Community Investment Fund operates like property trust but is structured through ...

The Cambridge Strategy appoints MD

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2008
... Currency and Rates hedge fund from 1999. As portfolio manager, he traded G14 and emerging markets foreign exchange and interest rate products. Between 1994 and 1999, Colehan worked for HSBC Futures as a senior sales director; with the last years in their ...

The best forecaster

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2008
... the 'Maestro' - former US Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan - would also recall one of his musings, the long-term interest rate conundrum. In his testimony before the US Congress in February 2005, Greenspan declared that: 'In this environment ...

First Quadrant taps global macro trends to gain 12pc

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2008
... strategies benefited from the group delivering as much as four times their currency performance targets following the raft of interest rate policy changes in recent months. "In the global macro space, we make global asset allocation decision, invest ...

Bell AM appoints CEO and COO

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2008
Bell Asset Management appointed Ned Bell as chief executive and Nick Fels as chief operating officer of the restructured international equities firm. Bell has more than 12 years experience managing international investment portfolios in the US and Australia. ...

DST Systems buys Bluedoor

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2008
... resources in this space and they've got a successful proven track record of taking local software globally, which is of great interest to us," said Spedding. He said the deal is a "market changing opportunity" in Australian financial services. "Investment ...