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A case for active managers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2007
... greater than five year track record," Gunning said. "However, these trends do occur in cycles and historically the performance of more long-term value oriented active managers tend to come back robustly once these less fundamentals-based cycles run their ...

Intech alt fund posts 16pc

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2007
... success during the recent sub-prime crisis proved the fund's effectiveness in a volatile environment. "The strong performance of GTS, particularly during the sub-prime meltdown in August this year, is a testament to the success of our approach to focus ...

Corp super applies ESG screen

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2007
... by considering the impact of ESG issues on our investments," she said. "Although aiming for enhanced investment performance of the fund is the reason for becoming a PRI signatory, we note that becoming a signatory is also consistent with the firm's broader ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2007
... whether it will raise interest rates. Also, the Australian Industry Group/Housing Industry Association Australian Performance of Construction Index (Australian PCI) for October is released. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) housing finance data ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2007
... Inc revealed losses on its subprime mortgage debt were $US11 billion and potentially growing. This hampered the performance of other financial stocks. The Dow Jones industrial average closed down 51.7 points or 0.38 per cent to 13,543.4. The Standard ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2007
... December share price index was up 25 points to 6723. Today, the Australian Industry Group/Commonwealth Bank Australian Performance of Services Index (Australian PSI) for October is released. The TD Securities/Melbourne Institute Inflation Gauge for October ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2007
... was up 54 points to 6848. In economic news today, the Australian Industry Group-PricewaterhouseCoopers Australian Performance of Manufacturing Index (PMI) for October is released, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases data on international trade ...

Rocketing small caps slow big cap funds

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2007
... cap fund manager was doing its job and providing alpha, it still underperformed the index due to the turbocharged performance of small caps in recent times. Inalytics founder and chief executive Rick Di Mascio said When we performed the analysis, we ...

ABN-AMRO launches GLO-MAX

... reasonable risk and complexity," he added. The portfolio is directly linked to index movements that reflect the performance of underlying equity, property and commodity stocks in the US, Europe and Japan. The five-year product also has a 20 per cent ...

Frontier finds gold in sub-prime muck

... globalised to the extent that what would have normally been an isolated problem in the US now affects the investment performance of Australian managed funds. David Murray, Future Fund chairman and one of the summit's panelists, said that what the credit ...