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Perennial bears the bear

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2008
Fund manager Perennial turns to history to give financial planners cogent tips on how to ride the bear market and even better, beat the doom-and-gloomsters. Any way you describe the events of the last two months would be nothing short of an understatement. ...

Europe pension assets on the rise

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2008
European pension assets have been battered by the bear market but the sector still managed to spurt a decent 5.7 per growth - bringing total assets to $6.4 trillion. According to the latest annual IPE Top 1000 Pension Funds supplement, which assesses ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2008
... points, or 2.99 per cent, to end at 11,188.23, its weakest close since late July as the blue-chip index moved into "bear market" territory -- down 20 per cent from last year's highs. The Nasdaq composite slid 74.69 points, or 3.2 per cent, to 2,259.04 ...

Shaw grows business in shaky times

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 14 AUG 2008
Shaw Stockbroking is defying the bear market by expanding its business and hiring staff from international investment powerhouses. Shaw managing director Harold Shapiro said the bear market has opened doors for key staff hire from international finance ...

Astarra opens to retail investors

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2008
... previously investors could only access the firm's diversified funds via its master trust. "In the highly volatile bear market conditions experienced these past 12 months the three Astarra Diversified Funds have consistently delivered positive returns ...

Bennelong's new arm champions boutiques

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2008
... the fund's new Australian Equities division. While most fund managers hunker down awaiting the passing of today's bear market, Bennelong Funds Management is taking the bull by its horns with the launch of a new arm, Bennelong Australian Equity Partners. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2008
... Nasdaq composite index fell 59.55, or 2.60 per cent, to 2,234.89. The pullback left both the Dow and S&P 500 back in bear market territory, with both indexes having logged declines of more than 20 per cent since their October highs. Bond prices edged ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2008
... points, or 1.49 per cent, to 5170. NEW YORK - The Dow rose on Thursday, a day after the blue-chip average entered a bear market, on relief payrolls data was not as weak as some had feared and with another record oil price boosting energy shares. The ...

Market Wrap - Morning

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2008
... points, or 2.26 per cent, to 5,094.0. NEW YORK -The Dow rose on Thursday, a day after the blue-chip average entered a bear market, on relief payrolls data was not as weak as some had feared and with another record oil price boosting energy shares. The ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2008
... 5094.8, while the broader All Ordinaries lost 49.5 points, or 0.94 per cent, to 5211.6. NEW YORK - The Dow sank into a bear market on Wednesday as US stocks fell on growing concerns about the toll that record oil prices are taking on the economy and ...