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Centric engages in three-way merger

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2007
... Centric's joint chief executive officer said the merger is a "perfect strategic fit", as all three businesses shared common values, target clients and business models. He said the two companies would be integrated into Centric to form a single advisory ...

Ignore economics, investors are herders

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2007
... research challenges the efficient market hypothesis and goes so far as to say it should be abondoned because financial values are not derived from reasoning but from herding, resulting in "subjective valuation and predictable patterns of market behaviour ...

More alpha through lower trading costs: BGI

... portfolio construction and level of turnover. Using a series of mathematical formulas, the group found that given a set of values, a fund manager can reduce average trading costs from 43.8 basis points to 40 basis points by accurately predicting the ...

LSE and Italian bourse to merge

Equipsuper offering members full service advice

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2007
... Financial Planning. Health Super Financial Services manager, Andrew Vogt, said Equipsuper and Health Super shared similar values and goals for members. "Equipsuper is an organisation which has shared cultural values with Health Super Financial Services. ...

Christian Super CEO to depart

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2007
... October. "The decision was a sad one for me to make," said Beckmann. "I have had the privilege to lead this unique and values focused fund through a period of very significant growth. Now I think the time is right to look for new opportunities where ...

HESTA joins better research alliance

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAY 2007
... owners and managers collectively responsible for more than US$2.4 trillion. They aim to promote investment research that values and incorporates non-standard balance sheet criteria in a company's long-term performance and valuation reports. The EAI was ...

China's market party gets louder

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2007
... trend. Last week Goldman Sachs issued a report warning that optimism and speculative trading have pushed Chinese share values ahead of market fundamentals and on the weekend China's central bank governor, Zhou Xiaochuan, reiterated concerns about a stock ...

UBS Australia imports global strength

... complacent. "From 1982 to 1999, the US enjoyed a monolithic bull market but it lost 45 per cent to 75 per cent of its peak values by 2003," The same cyclical turns could happen here. "It's not a party that's going to last forever. Sooner or later, the ...

IFSA toughens up conflicts and ethics standards

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2007
... Standard No.1, 'Industry Code of Ethics and Conduct', (the Code) which is essentially the bedrock upon which a common set of values, shared by IFSA members, is based. "IFSA seeks to advance efficiency, integrity and consumer confidence in the Australian ...