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Rising tide lifts hedge funds in September

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2010
Despite failing to match the performance of benchmark indices in September, Australian and international hedge funds are out in front, year to date, and on a rolling 12-month basis, new figures show. According to the Australian Fund Monitors Hedge Fund ...

Signposts to high yield

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2010
Russell Australia High Dividend Index's top ten holdings was dominated by financial stocks but property trusts are emerging as attractive high-yield stocks. The Russell Australia High Dividend Index (RAHDI) includes Australian blue-chip companies with ...

Bad, bad day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2010
For a while there I thought that October would just sail past smoothly - just like this year's September proved that it is not always the worst month for equities. Disappointment was all over Wall Street overnight - big time with its tree major stock ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2010
The Australian market has received strongly negative leads from offshore trading overnight. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0657 AEDT, the December share price index futures contract was 37 points lower at 4,632 points. In economic news on Wednesday ...

AXA IM gains more from European property

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
The time is ripe for investors to boost their allocation into European property, with likely returns as high as 30 per cent as the sector comes out of one of the worst periods for global real estate. Kiran Patel, global head of research and strategy ...

Simulate my retirement: Telstra Super

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
Telstra Super has launched a new online tool that goes beyond calculating one's retirement savings - introducing a new calculator that takes into account career breaks, having time off for children, and even a holiday to the Bahamas. The Telstra Super ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
The Australian share market was higher at noon, as the market digested the minutes of the latest Reserve Bank monetary policy meeting, released late on Tuesday morning. At 1200 AEDT, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 18 points, or 0.39 per cent ...

CFSGAM wins $30m mandate

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
Colonial First State Global Asset Management (CFSGAM) has won its first Institutional $30 million Global Resources mandate from Non-Government Schools Super (NGS). The mandate, designed to meet NGS' fund objectives, will focus on the drivers and benefits ...

QE2 or bust

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
... help from economic data or survey statistics, its officials appear to have already convinced themselves. We heard Chairman Ben Bernanke saying, "...there would appear--all else being equal--to be a case for further action." There's Chicago Fed President ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
The Australian market has received positive leads from offshore trade overnight, with European and US markets higher, including equities and commodities. On the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0713 AEDT, the December share price index futures contract was ...