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Thumbs up for high conviction: van Eyk

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2008
High conviction fund managers look set to reap the rewards of a sluggish Aussie equities market, according to new research by van Eyk. Soaring fee levels have generally discouraged and disappointed investors in the high conviction space, compared to ...

High school fin literacy for Aussies

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2008
Insurance and super will soon be explained to high school students via a new government and ASIC-led financial literacy resource. Senator Nick Sherry, minister of superannuation and corporate law and Tony D'Aloisio, Australian Securities and Investments ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2008
... down 5.14 per cent to $33.20 (at 1208 AEDT)," Ms Simpson said. "Energy stocks are down by about seven per cent. "But the Aussie dollar got close to 80 US cents on better than expected unemployment figures." Mining giant BHP Billiton was down $2.19, or ...

Citibank narrows retail product

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2008
... per cent of Citi's mortgage customers are sourced through brokers. The bank deals with most aggregator groups, though not Aussie Home Loans or Mortgage Choice. Personal instalment loans represent about five per cent of Citibank's unsecured consumer lending. ...

Aussies rethink super

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 31 OCT 2008
More than 20 per cent of working Australians have reduced their super contributions, changed their investment options or switched to a new super fund in the last three months, a new survey shows. Data from a Newspoll survey conducted on behalf of the ...

GSJBW team heads up boutique

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2008
Three ex-Goldman Sachs JB Were Aussie equities experts are joining forces in a new nabInvest-backed boutique venture, Fairview Equity Partners. Fairview is an Australian equities small caps boutique investment manager that is majority owned by its investment ...

Essex County seeks global eq manager

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2008
Aussie fund managers with a global equities expertise may apply for a slice of the $7.7 billion Essex County Council Pension Fund's $763 million global equities mandate. According to a public tender statement, the pension fund is looking to appoint ...

Aussie eq FMs shine in bad markets

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2008
Australian large cap equity managers that accounted for increasing commodity prices, corporate debt, a surging Australian dollar and rising global inflation weathered the financial storm better than others in the past 12 months. The Standard & Poor's ...

Cuffe fund outperforms index by 13.8 pc

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2008
... been buoyed by the fund's early exposure to international equities, some of which have also benefited from the weakening Aussie dollar, he said. The global equities exposure included a number of 'tilts' to areas such as global infrastructure, the resources ...

AustSuper stays cautious

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2008
... per cent lead from last year and now sits at 15 per cent. However high growth assets such as international equities and Aussie equities have received a carving. The fund decreased its international equities exposure from 24.5 per cent to just over 20 ...