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Free cash flow paves road to returns

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2008
... higher risk-adjusted return. "There was a growing belief among investors and analysts that cash flow - not earnings - was the true determinant of investment value," wrote William W. Priest in his book Free Cash Flow and Shareholder Yield. Today, his ...

Short selling flaw lies in disclosure

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2008
... "I would like to stress that short selling is an important financial tool in promoting market efficiency and encouraging true stock prices," said Senator Nick Sherry, minister for superannuation and corporate law said at the Riskmetrics Group Australia ...

Brookvine and ipac back Prisma

... are a dedicated fund of funds manager - that's all they do - and one that has plenty of opportunity to grow while remaining true to style. We were wary of the extent that traditional market 'beta' contributes to the returns of multi-strategy funds." ...

Purist private equity adds value

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2008
... for assets and the purchase price of businesses within Australia. Boutique equity fund manager MilhouseIAG has moved to a "true" private equity fund model that contains zero exposure to leverage while tapping into PE opportunities overseas in a bid to ...

True Index contains residual risk

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2008
Financial advisers and investors must realise True Index funds are not immune to extreme market events, according to Scott Donald, Russell Investment Group director of fiduciary research. True Index funds aim to replicate an index by investing in an ...

That's life, four pillars to stay forever

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2008
... a broker/securitiser is starting to look wafer thin. The real question is therefore whether banks were charging us their true borrowing margins or were they hiding behind the RBA cash rate to profiteer. Maybe it's time they started explaining to consumers ...

Let the sub-prime post-mortem begin

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2008
... system in future years. Reports now coming in that developed world central banks have sold gold at just a fraction of its true price in bulk deals just illustrates the extent of the power shift.

Double digit days are over

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2008
... First State Super chief investment officer Mark Sainsbury said variable inflation will also make investors less certain about true bond rates, real rates of return and the level of risk premiums demanded from equities. "Because we forecast with less ...

What US recession?

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2008
... will cut 150 basis points before the 'recession', and the Fed have never been that aggressive before." "The same thing is true with fiscal policy. I think the odds of a major fiscal package being passed in the next couple of months are very high at this ...

Investors want to unpack asset-backed transactions

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2007
... turnover of these securities has been extremely low thus precluding the establishment of an observable market price. This is true for RMBS, but particularly so for ABCP. "It is possible that the RBA's acceptance now of RMBS and ABCP as repo collateral ...