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Investors to regain capital from axed fund

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2009
... its efforts on the Asian property market, which Carroll says will be a strong asset class to generate returns following the GFC. The firm is currently developing a new Asian long short real estate securities fund. "We believe that on the back of an equities ...

Avoiding the black swan

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2009
... group's Global Core strategy, which is in its seventh consecutive quarter of outperformance as of March this year, despite the GFC. Garvy said that the strategy, as the name suggests, suits an institutional investor's core equities allocation, mainly ...

Liongate snags $1 billion in mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2009
... London-based fund of hedge fund manager Liongate Capital Management has won over $1 billion in mandates since the start of the GFC - and the firm is now seeking new wins in the Aussie institutional market. While most fund of hedge fund managers suffer ...

China's smoking gun

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2009
If you think Australia is having strange debates about how the government should spend GFC stimulus money to pump prime the economy, wait until you hear what they are arguing about in China. China is one of the last bastions of publicly acceptable cigarette ...

Baby boomers hang on to investments

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2009
... strategies, but many are arming themselves with education and taking a more prudent investment approach in a bid to ride out the GFC, new research shows. The latest Retire Ready survey from Commonwealth Bank shows that Baby Boomers are taking a "well-balanced" ...

They will, they won't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2009
... packages - could re-ignite inflation expectations in the near future. Interest rates are already expected to rise after the GFC as government's around the world compete for funds to plug their widened deficits, higher inflation would raise the upward ...

Precious metals ETCs in vogue

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2009
... volatility are flocking to precious metals exchange traded commodities - a sector that has seen substantial inflows following the GFC, said ETF Securities. ETF Securities has seen inflows surge into its physically backed gold ETCs, ETFS Physical Gold ...

Instreet a hit with planners

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2009
... market recovery while at the same time cognisant that clients don't want to take on undue risks - having been burnt by the GFC. The product has several attractive features. Unlike a conventional managed fund where the investor has to pay management fees ...

Budget deficit squeezes pension promises

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2009
... as much as $4 billion per year and significantly more in the out years. Combined with the apparent need for more rounds of GFC stimulus packages, the government is warning massive tax hikes on the wealthy will be needed to make up for collapsing government ...

Mutual funds outperform instos

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2009
... their asset allocation targets which led to an increase in rebalancing. As a result of the a deepening recession and ongoing GFC, nearly half of the outflows occurred in the fourth quarter forcing many plans to raise funds to meet their benefit payments ...