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Bill failed, what next?

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2008
... there's been more churn but that larger clients are putting more money into equities. "Particularly in the Australian equities space, if you look at the expected levels of corporate earnings - even if you see an economic slowdown - corporate earnings ...

LGSS affected by shorting ban

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2008
... funds that employ shorting strategies, which has since been affected by the new ban of short-selling listed Australian equities. "It does have an impact on us in a number of ways. A lot of these [hedge fund] managers will employ short selling techniques ...

Gasparet leaves Austock

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2008
Austock Asset Management's Australian equities portfolio manager, Silvio Gasparet has left the firm resulting in Standard & Poor's placing a 'hold' rating on the its Australian equities fund. Standard & Poor's previously rated the Austock Australian ...

ASIC tightens short-selling rules

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2008
... from targeting the local stockmarket when it imposed temporary restrictions on short-selling of all listed Australian equities effective today. It took less than 24 hours after the UK's financial services regulator, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) ...

Adam Smith hires portfolio manager

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2008
Boutique Australian equities investment manager Adam Smith Asset Management has appointed Stephen Atkinson as portfolio manager within its small cap Australian equities team. Atkinson has been a portfolio manager at MMC Asset Management, Credit Suisse ...

Tyndall finds value

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2008
... Hobart, head of retail, Tyndall. This includes an assessment of around 120 companies in Tyndall's universe of Australian equities stocks. "Valuations are improving as market falls. [They] have improved much faster than any deterioration in earnings," ...

QIC appoints ESG manager

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2008
... oversee its implementation," he said. Grant has been involved in ESG research for over two years within QIC's Australian equities team. She was also one of the key personnel involved in QIC's signing of the UNPRI.

Is offshore investment necessary?

... outperforming the domestic market during this period. The reverse happened in the period from mid-2000 to early 2003 - Australian equities outperformed the US market. This year, the correlation between the US and Australian stockmarkets has risen again ...

S&P recognises industry best

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2008
... structure. The awards also recognised the best across all investment sectors. Invesco Australia picked up the Australian Equities - Small Cap award and again, BT Investment Management won the Australian equities - large cap category. Walter Scott & Partners ...

US payrolls jitters

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2008
... go again. If the overnight performance of the European and US stockmarkets are anything to go by, Asian and Australian equities are in for another rough trading day. Wall Street and European bourses tumbled last night as fears of a global slowdown led ...