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Investing without feeling

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2008
AXA's chief investment officer Mark Dutton highlighted the US experience that shows why investor returns are chronically influenced by human emotions. Dutton said A US report analysed the returns of the Standard & Poor's 500 Index compared to the experience ...

DIY investors not happy

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2008
Investors are increasingly dissatisfied with the products of their DIY investment brokers, new research by Wealth Focus shows. Figures from the new DIY Investor Report found that investors were "relatively unhappy" with their main DIY investment broker ...

Tele-underwriting with a health check

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2008
Pathrec has unveiled a tele-underwriting service by a medical service provider for planners and insurers as the firm moves to take a slice of the growing insurance market. According to Pathrec chief executive, Olga Tomic, TeleCheck is an outsourcing ...

ANZ sets the scene for capital raising

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2008
ANZ may be preparing investors for a capital raising. It is also noteworthy that ANZ and its CEO Mike Smith are taking the lead - given NAB and John Stewart took the opposite position in an interview with The Australian (and abstracted here) a couple ...

Water the next competitive frontier

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2008
Treasury boss Ken Henry's speech last week continues to attract interest, especially where he argues for a huge step up in national competition policy, particularly in how we price water. "In addressing the Productivity Commission roundtable on the ...

Listed cos fail compliance test

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2008
A higher number of ASX-listed company directors have failed to comply with share trading rules today compared to four years ago, raising questions on the prevalence of insider trading and the influence of the country's regulators. The number of top ...

Optimix to use local Indian know-how

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2008
Optimix chief investment officer Emmanuel Calligeris suggests fund managers who are only entering the market now face an uphill battle compared to those who have had a few years headstart. It took two years of hard work setting up the business but ING's ...

EMs too fast, too furious for sub-prime

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2008
Emerging markets are set to grow more than three times the rate of developed markets and will shrug off the sub-prime led liquidity crisis with ease, according to emerging markets wizard Mark Mobius. EMs investments expert Mobius from Templeton Asset ...

Long life derails retirement

People are living longer but not saving up as much, and probably can't afford to save more anyway, according to a leading actuary. While many superannuation experts have talked about the risk of people running out of money before they run out of breath ...

ING IM target resource rich states

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2008
The resource rich Australian states of Western Australia and Queensland provide the best investment opportunities in the coming year, according to James Wright, ING Investment Management chief investment officer. "In Australia we are seeing the continuation ...