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PE firms struggling with data management

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2014
... producing on-demand performance reports is challenging. "Prioritising investments in information systems is no longer seen as a 'nice to have,' but is an absolute requirement to help PE firms effectively compete in the increasingly democratized world ...

Think Holden, think not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2013
... an inefficient and loss-generating enterprise and instead focus on industries where Australia has a comparative advantage. Nice seque to Adam Smith's thoughts on "comparative advantage", eh? In his book, 'The Wealth of Nations', Smith proposed that ...

Former CFSGAM exec joins Frontier Advisors

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2013
... together and how to look at assets and analyse management of the assets, and Tim is part of that skilling up. "We've now got a nice mix of people who've worked in fund management, some guys from engineering, some people who've worked on the research ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2013
... anytime soon. Lonsec senior client adviser Michael Heffernan described the gains of about 1.0 per cent on the local market as a nice bounce-back from Wednesday's belting when stocks fell about 1.3 per cent. "I think it was probably overdone given the ...

The budget and the ceiling - never again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 SEP 2013

Syria on ice and other things nice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 SEP 2013

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2013
... have a significant impact on the market today. "I don't think it will have a major bearing today," he said. "It would be nice to see some good growth coming through, but it is a backward-looking indicator and this is a forward looking market right now." ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2013
... have a significant impact on the market today. "I don't think it will have a major bearing today," he said. "It would be nice to see some good growth coming through, but it is a backward-looking indicator and this is a forward looking market right now." ...

30 days hath September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2013
I don't know whether to laugh or cry watching what just transpired on the first trading day of September. What transpired was equity markets jumped on the first trading day of September - European stocks soared closer to 2%, those in Tokyo by 1.4% and ...

Problems, problems, problems

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2013
... downgrade of US debt).A To be fair this was compounded by the 'worries du jour' - the European debt crisis. This gives me a nice seque into Europe.A There's again brewing trouble in that part of the world courtesy of convicted tax fraudster and bunga ...