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Flying high with Pegasus

Adelaide-based Pegasus Growth Strategy Fund has posted a high 61 per cent return in the year to October proving there is merit behind micro-cap investing. A look at the fund's track record shows that it is certainly leaving up to its name, which refers ...

BankWest raises high yield stakes

... who is looking for a savings deposit account," said David Rose, BankWest's head of marketing and products. The interest top-ups will vary across BankWest's range of products. The Business TeleNet Saver will enjoy an extra 0.25 per cent to 6.35 per cent ...

FKP makes mark in property

FKP Funds Management's Commercial Property Trust No 1 posted a high 58.5 per cent total return to investors for the 2005-06 financial year thanks to the group's active management strategies and the strong Brisbane property market. The 58.5 per cent ...

SSgA launches global index fund with value bias

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 16 OCT 2006
State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) has announced the launch of a new global passive fund that combines some of the core qualities of value investing with the benefits of passive index style investment management. The SSgA Wealth Weighted Global Equities ...

First time home buyers locked out: Genworth

A leading mortgage report has highlighted data revealing that the number of first home buyers had fallen from its historical average last year despite the rise of more consumer-friendly home loan products. According to the latest Genworth Financial ...

Hatfield opts out of Packer's new Pengana

Only weeks after a Packer led consortium announced it was taking over Malcolm Turnbull's struggling Pengana Hedge Funds, its former principal, Damien Hatfield, together with its chief executive officer, Russell Pillemer, have sold out of the business. ...

SSgA launches neutral Asian alpha fund

KATE HAGE  |  MONDAY, 21 AUG 2006
State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) has launched its new SSgA Asia Pacific Equity Market Neutral Fund, aimed at giving institutional investors easy access to pure alpha returns from Asian equity markets. The strategy, designed by SSgA's quantitative ...

Private equity cash cow keeps growing

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 4 AUG 2006
... that would "knock the socks" off the sector in the future, said Ferris, are venture capital in drug and therapeutic start-ups along with alternative energy, which he said are inexpensive to seed. The future for private equity, according to Macquarie ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUL 2006
... that exceeded analysts' forecasts while raising its forecast for the full year. But earlier in the day, the the outlook from UPS and the lacklustre earnings from 3M had stirred investors' worries about the economy, keeping stocks in negative territory ...

Staff churn afflicts underperforming small cap sector

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUL 2006
... manager failing to meet their benchmark. S&P analyst, Ben Sheehan, said the strong employment market and the flood of new start-ups is to blame for the high staff churn in the sector. "While staff turnover is inevitable over time, the rate of change ...