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Adept Capital launches Asian FOHFs

MICHAEL HOBBS | TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2008

... "Our fund offers the best of both worlds - access to dynamic young managers and to Asia, the world's most compelling growth story." Tony Smith, chief investment officer at Adept Capital Partners, and an eight-person team manage the Early Stage Asia Fund. ...

Councils take action on CDOs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR AND RUTH LIEW | MONDAY, 18 FEB 2008

... will be those that might bail out of CDOs altogether while others let the crisis pass. "I think it's going to be the old story - a flight to quality and higher risk aversion, more conservatism and councils will be happy to accept cash returns again," ...

Unsticking the CAD

ALEX DUNNIN | WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2008

The real story in yesterday's rates rise is that despite the surging economy making the rate rise necessary, the current account deficit (CAD) is still stuck on 6 per cent. According to the ABS, our CAD has been 5.5 to 6 per cent of GDP for the last ...

Credit Suisse pairs up with Julius Baer

MICHAEL HOBBS | TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2008

... portfolio manager, said JBIM adopts different analysis processes depending on different countries and sectors. "The JBIM story is a fresh one. We're not driven by benchmarks and we feel free to go where the best ideas lead us. Our emerging markets exposure ...

Cautiously upbeat: Economists Forum

ALEX DUNNIN | FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2008

... Group, said, "We need to talk about the real economy, like manufacturing. Inside the sectors it can be quite a different story." Pensabene said the economic dark horse is currency. "The story for manufacturing is a reasonably strong story. But when the ...

Oil sours economic rally

MARK STORY | FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2008

A recently released PricewaterhouseCoopers survey reveals that senior executives have replaced terrorism with risk of energy supply as a primary concern in 2008. Leading oil-importing economies that share these concerns meet today in the Swiss resort ...

Asia's de-coupling is on track

MARK STORY | THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2008

Despite a 25 per cent drop in the MSCI Emerging Asia Index since last October, there's growing evidence that the region has de-coupled sufficiently from the US economy not to follow it into what could be a deeper recession than 2001. While exports and ...

China's investor confidence crisis

MARK STORY | WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2008

Following a decade-long bear market that led to a huge sell-off in the 1990s, China's investors have experienced spectacular stock gains since the wave of partial privatisations two years ago. But a dramatic sell-down that shaved 10 per cent off share ...

Conflicting rate calls

MARK STORY | TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2008

There's growing expectation among European economists that the European Central Bank (ECB) will be forced to follow the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England and start lowering interest rates. Ironically, iterations from executive board member Juergen ...

Too little too late

MARK STORY | MONDAY, 21 JAN 2008

While economists regard the Rudd Government's announced five-point, anti-inflationary package as positive, it's not expected to be a threshold issue for the Reserve Bank. There are no hard specifics as to where savings will come from, but Labor expects ...

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Treasury responds to Debelle's review into the AOFM

KARREN VERGARA

Treasury has responded to the Guy Debelle-led review into the Australian Office of Financial Management (AOFM), agreeing to all six recommendations.

Bravura ups guidance, reports earnings increase

RIDDHIMA TALWANI

Bravura Solutions informed investors cost discipline will protect its full year earnings result after a client migrated to a Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) early in the year.

MaxCap hires from Vanguard, AustralianSuper

MATTHEW WAI

MaxCap has welcomed two senior directors, including a portfolio manager from Australia's largest super fund, reporting to the recently named chief executive Kylie Robb.

Zenith snags mandate from Granite Bay

MATTHEW WAI

Granite Bay Private Wealth has selected Zenith Investment Partners to support their investment governance and due diligence.

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