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AXA Rosenberg eyes emerging markets

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2008
... alpha so they're really coming to us," he said. Burton said the company's investment strategy had not changed after the sub-prime fallout. "Our process is generated from the same fundamental company analysis AXA Rosenberg has been using since 1985. We're ...

Clever but not too clever investing

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2008
... institutional products. RWI head of sales and distribution, David Adiseshan, said the recent chain of events involving the sub-prime crisis coupled with anti-leverage and anti-financial structuring sentiment have had significant implications for both ...

Money changes hands

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 29 FEB 2008
... opening, and the world's poor are increasingly finding ways to enter the global economy via microfinance and other means." Sub-prime may not have caused all this but it is hastening its impact by decades. How the US Fed responds could have historical ...

US dominoes keep falling

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2008
... remarkably well, perhaps too well. Ben Bernanke yesterday told US Congress that economic conditions are getting worse as the sub-prime contagion spreads from the financial sector into other parts of the economy. "The growth of real gross domestic product ...

BCA call to freeze Budget gets cold shoulder

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2008
... social security and welfare, it is not so keen for the same constraints to be applied to executive salaries, an area where Prime Minister Rudd recently publicly appealed for business leaders to lead by example. "What we're seeing there is, I guess, a ...

SBI eyes infrastructure

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2008
... radar. This sector has been ignored by the market, and has hugely underperformed only because of fears emanating from the sub-prime crisis in the US because IT companies are dependent on the US and European companies," Wakankar said. "But these companies ...

BlackRock fund treads allocation balance

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2008
... a bumpy ride for both local and international investors as the US economy continues to work through the kinks of the sub-prime meltdown and market volatility. Hudson predicts US growth stocks to outperform value stocks, American equities to top their ...

AWU campaigns for opt-in super

... that his proposal comes with both economic and political risks. "I accept that political imperatives might constrain the Prime Minister from such a black-and-white solution. That's why the proposal to provide an opt-out choice may be an attractive middle ...

Councils take action on CDOs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR AND RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2008
Rage and accusations are now rearing their ugly heads as embattled councils attempt to recoup their losses from sub-prime backed CDO investments, but the crisis could spark a government rethink on how councils should invest their funds. Hugh McLernon ...

Diversity pays in wealth management: CBA

... investment returns and inflows into FirstChoice in the six months to December. The bank was not immune to the impact of the sub-prime asset crisis and revealed extra funding costs and loan impairment provisioning in the half year. Cash net profit after ...