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No fast bucks: Costello

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2009
... governance at the compliance, corporate and international level will be the critical ingredients to survive and learn from the GFC, he said. "I encourage you to be fund managers and trustees who take seriously the values, the alignment and [the strategies ...

Beggar thy neighbour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2009
... could always point to China as the firestarter. There had been a number of calls for China to revalue its currency even before GFC became known to stand for the Global Financial Crisis and not the Geelong Football Club as most Australians know. Western ...

Fresh mint

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2009
... will eventually turn sentiment around. Happy days will be here again. But when time comes to collect, we may have to endure GFC part 2.

Doors open for new ETFs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2009
... is one of the top three largest providers of ETFs in the world. The sector is also one of the few that did well despite the GFC, attracting around US$130 billion in investor funds last year. Michael Krause, president of AltaVistra Research, a firm that ...

Currency cushions GFC hangover

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2009
Institutional investors looking for a buffer to their rapidly depleting portfolios are now paying attention to BT Investment Management's Absolute Return Currency Fund - which last year lost only 1 per cent compared to some of its peers which lost up ...

RARE quality found in infrastructure

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2009
With billions of dollars in GFC stimulus money about to pour into infrastructure projects around the world, knowing how to find the best investment opportunities is crucial. Matt Dell, head of retail distribution for global listed infrastructure manager ...

AIG: 100 per cent GFC proof

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2009
'Under these circumstances, it's hard to understand how derivative traders at A.I.G. warranted any bonuses at all, much less US$165 million in extra pay. How do they justify this outrage to the taxpayers who are keeping the company afloat?' US President ...

Hunter Hall says sorry

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2009
... Hunter Hall traditionally look at, which are the small to mid cap value stocks and the developing markets, were hard hit by the GFC. Second, the fund made major errors in judgement. "We underestimated the severity of the downturn...the speed of the oil ...

New boutiques, more advisers for NAB

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2009
... planning to double its number of specialist boutique managers by buying bargain firms that have emerged as a result of the GFC.

Lift retirement age, lower long term benefits: IMF

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2009
... paper The State of Public Finances: Outlook and Medium-Term Policies After the 2008 Crisis. The tension point is that the GFC has accentuated these age related expenditures which were already expected to add another 3.8 per cent each year to Australia's ...