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Grain price hints at strong growth: CFSGAM

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 16 JAN 2012
... recover tomorrow. "Agriculture stocks are a volatile sector due to weather impacts and changes in investor sentiments as money rushes into the sector but will then quickly abandon after a short term," said Macpherson. "Right now though it feels like ...

In superannuation, bigger can be better but not always

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2011
... however, that there are so few home grown fund managers large enough to absorb this investment volume. He said only 43% of the money in Australia's investment market is managed by Australian-owned managers. "Australia's growing superannuation ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2011
... banks exposed to distressed sovereign debt which now find it increasingly hard to secure short-term funding in the interbank money market. The BoE has kept interest rates at a record low 0.50 per cent since March 2009 when it began pumping STG200 billion ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011
... after news that major central banks agreed to provide three-month US dollar loans to commercial banks in order to prevent money markets from freezing up in the wake of Europe's sovereign debt crisis. London Metal Exchange (LME) three-month copper rose ...

Goodbye or good buy?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2011
... US equities are currently trading at an earnings yield of 8.8%. Now compare that with 2.32% and you know where the smart money will flow. This takes us back to the 'R' word and 'DD'. For if America's economy hit the skids, earnings would too. Admittedly ...

AllianceBernstein bullish on molecular medicine

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUN 2011
... tell doctors how cancer patients will react to treatment. "These tests go for $4000 because they do save the system so much money and the FDA and insurance companies want to enable these companies to do more R&D and produce more of these tests," said ...

Currency Forum to pose big questions

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2011
... "If I was a fund manager and I could guarantee you an extra 100 basis points of performance above a certain index I'd get money thrown at me but this is just pure savings and it's a little boring so people don't take any notice of it," said Liddy.

May the Fed be with you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2011
... there is currently no reason to slow the economy down with tighter monetary policy." May may get you down but the smart money is smart enough not to fight the Fed.

Smarter annuities can plug retirement savings gap

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2011
... quarter. A common complaint about annuities is their lack of access to capital, which is where products such as OnePath's Money For Life provide a solution. David Kan, general manager, Retirement & Investment Solutions, OnePath, is comfortable with levels ...

Implemented Portfolios adds four practices

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUL 2010
... firm's investment manager, Jon Reilly, assists the committee. "The smart part is in the intellect behind where you put your money," he said. "It's this part that we think most practices that start their own IMAs just don't have, [they] don't have the ...