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Be glad for A$ weakness

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2011
... year that we, Australians, are now used to counting our legal tender not in terms of US cents but in terms of a dollar US plus some change. And just last May, global currency expert Savvas Savouri of the British-based Toscafund hedge fund predicted the ...

AvSuper awards double alternatives mandate

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2011
... investment operation requirements have also grown. "So we wanted to build additional experience in house to support that, plus respond to increasing demand for investment education and information from Fund members. Scott's role is integral to both of ...

Conversation the key to speeding up SOA

RACHEL DAVIS  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2011
... the same time. "Planners shouldn't be in a situation where only higher value clients are profitable, but if SOAs take six plus hours to produce they don't have much choice - it causes a blowout in the cost of advice per client." Recent reported research ...

Find me that silver bullet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2011
... problems are also reverberating down under. The NAB business confidence index dropped by 10 points in August to minus 8 from plus 2 in the previous month, suggesting that "businesses are wary about the potential impact of global influences on activity ...

SMAs drive interest into concentrated Australian equity funds

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2011
... smaller peers in terms of being able to nimbly move in and out of stocks," it said. ING Select Leaders Trust and ING Alpha Plus Australian Share Fund were both downgraded from Recommended to Fund Watch, after UBS Global Asset Management said it would ...

FPA ad campaign sneak preview released to members

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2011
... members will have to satisfy a raft of provisions including holding an approved undergraduate degree, masters or doctorate plus three years of supervised experience. Matthew Rowe, chairman of the FPA, said there were 16,000 planners in Australia of which ...

On the verge

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2011
... manufacturing outlook survey. The index dropped like a stone to minus 30.7 in August - the lowest reading since March 2009 -- from plus 3.2 in July. This is worrying because my records show - which dates back to 1968 -- that readings in the order of ...

Hedge fund forum delivers expert speakers next month

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2011
... portfolio which has taken four years to build from scratch, he said. "We have two allocations... to Australian hedge funds, plus we also have a third in a 1/30/30 manager, so we have made some allocations there," he said. Tomlinson said SunSuper usually ...

China demand for Australian resources to fall: JP Morgan

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011
... Ulrich said the Middle Kingdom may have to live with lower growth rates in the next few years. "If China can maintain a 7% plus growth rate, despite an adverse economic environment, there's nothing wrong with that. If our economy grows at a lower rate ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011
... solid after-close earnings report and bullish forecast Wednesday. Banks also recovered some of the previous day's 10 per cent-plus losses. Bank of America added 7.1 per cent while Citigroup gained 6.3 per cent. Bond yields firmed after trading at near-record ...