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China on shaky platform

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2007
As international investment firms jostle to invest in China's growth story, a Wiley-Blackwell report found the country's position might not be as stable as previously thought. China as a Net Creditor: An Indication of Strength or Weakness? Found China's ...

MM over-diversification a myth: Russell

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2007
... involved in this research is the idea that lower tracking error means lower returns. Lower tracking error is a different story to what causes lower returns however." At the risk of stating the obvious, he added, "What you end up with really comes down ...

Move over BRICs, Middle East is coming

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2007
... BRICs is probably overdone and we should look for a set back because they've gone too far too fast, although the underlying story is fantastic, in the short term, they've got a bit ahead of themselves," said Conway. The BRIC economies would still yield ...

Liontamer lends weight to blue gold

... Janine Starks added that while investors think of utilities and infrastructure as the main avenues in water investments, the story is far deeper. "We're investing in water technology companies, water metering companies...around 80 per cent of the fund ...

Kingsway Taitz scores two new mandates

... they had also secured contracts for next year that would take their AUA up to $1.7 billion. Chris Nicholls Correction: This story originally stated the mandates were both from arkx. The story has been amended to show the mandates were from two separate ...

Toy story

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2007
... from China's export boom continue driving investment and fuelling its phenomenal economic growth, but China's toxic toy story has taken on a new development that will likely impact its lucrative Christmas export trade. Manufacturing remains China's main ...

Sub-prime's house of cards

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2007
... sour news over the extent of the credit crisis. The US markets stumbled over a negative sales outlook for Cisco, and this story is a house of cards in itself, with a gust of sub-prime blowing through the window. Sub-prime losses have resulted in US companies ...

OneCare works

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2007
... the bottom-performing retail insurance providers four years ago, ING Australia has made a comeback. The biggest success story this year has been insurance platform OneCare, according to chief financial officer Ian Riley. The product, which bundles life ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 OCT 2007
... resource and finance had kept the bourse in positive territory. "The two resource stocks and the four big banks, the usual story," he said. Mr Smith agreed that speculation of an interest rate cut in the United States also had kept the mood positive ...

Exposure to alternatives raises risks

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2007
... capital markets research at Russell and Andrew Leung, senior research associate at Russell compiled a report, Illiquidity: A Story of Haircuts and Perms, which found investors are allocating a large proportion of their portfolio to alternative assets. ...