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Planners must alter proposition: Murray

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUL 2008
... fund investor only returned 3.9 per cent over the same period. "Suppose the only thing [an adviser] had to do is stop the classic investor from the classically hard wired bad behaviour that drove this return down from an effortlessly available 11.3 per ...

Back testing not enough

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2008
... how they are likely to perform in good times, bad times and all others in between. "Local listed property trusts are a classic case of this. "Over time, the sector has become way too concentrated, and increasingly risky, to such an extent that investors ...

CPI, housing affordability and oil bills

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2008
... it. Most people in communities across Australia support affordable housing until it's proposed in their area. It's the classic case of 'great idea but not in my backyard'," he said. The reaction against it is so bad that Winnel said, "when developers ...

Clay Finlay re-invents growth

When investing gets tough, the tough re-defines investing. Or at least that's how global equities manager Clay Finlay explains how it will spot growth stocks in plunging markets. The new chief executive and chief investment officer team of the global ...

Pure infrastructure a safe haven: CFS

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2008
... themselves from volatile markets, according to Hans Kunnen, head of investment markets research at Colonial First State. "The classic safe havens will be cash and bonds but should also include infrastructure, mainly because it provides high yields and ...

Little fish and the big picture

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2007
The past five weeks has given some investors a classic lesson in the difficulty of timing markets. Expectations of more bad news saw the bears in a sell-off before being forced to buy back in as shares rebounded - a turn around that has enabled shares ...

Global indices are dinosaurs: Schroders

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2007
... heavy US bias, and irrational weight changes meant investors tied to such indices were inherently disadvantaged. "It's the classic one (problem) where the short-term business risk of the fund manager to outperform the benchmark, relative to its peers ...

CBA's new chief information officer has big ambitions

... competitive advantage." The reference to "open systems" may be the main clue, as CBA's technology is the opposite: the classic banking jumble of legacy systems reflecting an early migration to computing in the 1960s and a complex web of bolt-on systems ...

ASIC charges unlicensed advisers

In another classic case of caveat emptor, charges have been laid against four Queensland-based 'investment advisers' for running a business without a license. Following ASIC's investigation, Marianna Casella, Peter Stokes, Anton Vilenica and Ken McDowell ...

Investors advised to use a stop-loss to realise profits

... from greed-dominated sentiment where stocks are held to deliver the highest possible capital return, describing it as a "classic way of turning a profit into loss". Galtieri believes the first step to employing a stop-loss technique is for investors ...