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S&P expands research team

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 18 APR 2008
Standard & Poor's Fund Services has appointed Leanne Fook as a fund ratings generalist to the firm's fund research team. Previously, Fook worked as a research analyst at Australian Wealth Management (AWM) for three years, reviewing investments across ...

LPTs in bargain bin

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 18 APR 2008
Investors have a once in a ten year opportunity to invest in listed property as prices reach rock bottom, said a specialist boutique investment manager. Speaking at the 2008 Skandia Roadshow in Sydney this morning, SG Hiscock & Company director Stephen ...

Getting ethics back on track

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 18 APR 2008
Good advice? Check. Good investments? Check. Ethics? Hmmm. A US-based financial advice expert said ethics is the third often overlooked plank of a successful business. Speaking at the Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT) conference in Sydney yesterday ...

Abacus banks on new wave of tourists

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 18 APR 2008
Tourists from the US and Japan may be down but hotel property investments are still a good bet thanks to a growing number of visitors from China, Korea and India, according to Abacus Funds Management. Abacus claims Australia's hospitality industry would ...

Carbon transport the next big thing

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 18 APR 2008
Investors looking for a radical way to grow their savings should watch out for new industries that will develop out of the storage and transportation of carbon dioxide, as the move towards using clean coal power stations continue to gain traction. "On ...

Austock extends risk service

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 18 APR 2008
Austock Group has set up a Treasury Risk Advisory team who will help clients effectively manage their interest rate, currency and commodity investments. The Treasury Risk Advisory team includes commodity market, interest rate and currency specialists. ...

Pengana rides global resources boom

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2008
Pengana Capital's Global Resources Fund has returned almost 50 per cent net to investors and outperformed the ASX 300 Metals and Mineral Index by 13.1 per cent since March last year. The Pengana Global Resources Fund uses a range of approaches including ...

Algos trap rogue traders

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2008
Algorithmic trading has traditionally been linked to trading orders and developing investment strategies - but the technology is now gaining traction as a way to catch white collar crime. According to John Bates, founder and general manager of Progress ...

Trilogy hops on netwealth

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2008
Trilogy Funds Management's first Mortgage Income Trust is the latest addition to the netwealth Investment and Super Wrap platforms. The Trilogy trust is an open-ended, unlisted mortgage trust made of a pool of registered first mortgages secured over ...

UBS expands global real estate team

UBS has appointed Michelle Leong Willimott as associate director and analyst in Global Real Estate Securities. In her new role, she will help maintain forecasting models and analytical processes and support the portfolio managers. Willimott has over ...