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China's investor confidence crisis

MARK STORY  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2008
Following a decade-long bear market that led to a huge sell-off in the 1990s, China's investors have experienced spectacular stock gains since the wave of partial privatisations two years ago. But a dramatic sell-down that shaved 10 per cent off share ...

Intech alt fund posts 16pc

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2007
Intech's flagship alternatives fund, the Global Tactical Strategies Trust (GTS), has finished its first year on a high, with a return of 16.16 per cent for the the year to end September. The absolute return, multi-manager fund delivered much of its ...

Stop chasing artificial yields: PIR

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2007
... artificially inflate their returns using financial engineering and other innovations. But that strategy won't stack up in a bear market and gives investors a false picture of the property fund. "This can be potentially misleading to investors in terms ...

Bear claws and database gremlins

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2007
... market half way to a crash just before 2pm yesterday in one of its biggest losses in seven years. Not officially a Bear market, yesterday's mauling still managed to erase all of the gains earlier in the year. The market was already weak, after the S&P ...

Bank on high quality: ipac

... 'low quality' companies, said ipac's chief investment officer Jeff Rogers. He explained that if you go back to the bear market of 2002, some low quality companies were close to bankruptcy. But the government reduced the cost of running businesses by ...

Antares teams with Lodestar for absolute returns

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2007
Antares Capital Partners, a recently formed alternative investment business within the NAB Group, has teamed with Lodestar Capital Partners to launch a new absolute return fund. The Antares Lodestar Absolute Return Trust aims to deliver stable absolute ...

China funds under pressure?

... positioning the fund in anticipation of a correction. First, she invested in shares which are more likely to ride out a bear market and, second, the fund's exposure to highly liquid shares was increased over the past 12 months in case of short-term volatile ...

DFS fee model a winner

DFS Advisory Services, a planning group spun-off from accounting firm Deloitte five years ago, has adopted a fee-for-service model that is proving a hit with high net worth investors. The group inherited the proprietary 'fee matrix' created by Deloitte ...

Smallco scores four stars from S&P

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 27 NOV 2006
... particularly since early 2003, a period coinciding with strong market conditions, but is yet to be tested in an enduring bear market." The fund is to be capped at $250 million and currently has $130 million in funds under management.

K2 is an absolute five star: S&P

A strong seven year track record has paid off for K2 Asset Management with its Australian absolute return fund receiving a five star rating from Standard & Poor's (S&P). The fund has posted an annualised return of 18.2 per cent since its inception in ...