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Macq and UNSW do the maths

Macquarie Bank has teamed up with academics at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) to develop a faster mathematical method to calculate the risks of investing in highly complex finance products. Under the initiative, the bank will work with researchers ...

Fund managers better buyers than sellers

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2007
Fund managers being too optimistic about investments they have selected are inadvertently hurting their performance by making poor selling decisions, said quantitative research specialist Inalytics. "By their nature, fund managers are optimists. They're ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2007
The Australian share market is expected to open higher after strong gains in US stocks on Monday and close to record highs in international markets. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0655 AEST, the June share price index contract was trading up 39 points ...

China's growth unsustainable: Australian Economic Review

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2007
China's joint current account and capital account surpluses mean the current pace of economic growth is unsustainable in the long run, according to a study published in the Australian Economic Review. The report's author, Professor Yu Yongding, director-general ...

CHOICE rates reverse mortgages

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2007
CHOICE has reviewed 23 reverse mortgages against a range of what it believes are "good practice" standards and found 10 to be satisfactory, 11 to be not good enough and two to be poor. The results are published in the latest CHOICE consumer magazine ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2007
The Australian share market at noon had retreated from record territory and was slightly lower, pulled back by the major miners and some stocks deriving earnings from the United States. "It was a bit more of a mixed evening in terms of metals prices ...

Portfolio Partners offsets co2 with tree-planting program

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2007
Portfolio Partners has announced a partnership with CO2 Australia to sequester its greenhouse gas emissions by planting mallee eucalyptus trees in NSW and Victoria. Working to offset the estimated 680 tonnes in carbon emissions the company produces ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2007
The Australian share market is expected to open higher after a positive US lead. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0737 AEST, the June share price index contract was trading up 25 points to 6,232. On the economic front, the Australian Bureau of Statistics ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2007
Labour force data released from the ABS today shows that over the last month there was a 10.5 per cent increase in employment in Australia in seasonally adjusted terms so that on an annual basis there was a 2.7 per cent growth in the national workforce. ...

Deutsche Xenon leveraged hedge fund recommended

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2007
The Xenon Alpha Plus3 (XAP3), the third Australian leveraged hedge fund from the Deutsche Xenon brand, has been rated 'recommended' by Zenith Investment Partners. In recommending the product, Ben Davis, senior investment analyst with Zenith, said the ...