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BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2008
... yield curve. This was because the US economy had been growing between 2 and 3 per cent at the time the curve was inverting. Plus, Wall Street and commodity prices were rallying. This time it's different! The US recession once again underscores the predictive ...

First Quadrant taps global macro trends to gain 12pc

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2008
... short on the Australian dollar, a stance that they are only starting to unwind now that the dollar is hovering around 60 plus cents to the US dollar. "What's important about that is that we were short Aussie dollars for fundamental reasons, not carry. ...

Pengana Global Volatility gains 24pc

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2008
... Wilkinson, who was in Sydney last week, said that he is confident that the fund will meet year-end projections of a 30 per cent plus return and is just awaiting confirmation of their September and October performance - a time when VIX reached abnormal ...

MTAA Super is fund of the year

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2008
... Rainmaker Group beating finalists that included other star performers and market innovators HESTA Super, AustralianSuper, Host-Plus and CBUS. MTAA Super achieved its award after being one of the most consistent super funds in the country with investment ...

Perpetual mortgage funds reopen

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2008
... basis from the available proceeds from the fund. ING investors with pension accounts linked to the ING Mortgage and Income Plus Funds on ING OneAnswer, ING Allocated Annuities and ANZ OneAnswer will receive pension payments despite the current suspension ...

Sunsuper pumps $100m into Trinity

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 NOV 2008
... because of distressed sellers," said David Hartley, chief investment officer of Sunsuper. The trust is an open-ended, core plus total return fund focused on diversified Australian assets from Darwin to Adelaide in the $10 million to $50 million range. ...

ASIC adjusts redemption rules to help pensioners

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2008
... amount would be the lesser of: the specific amount requested under the hardship withdrawal request or $20,000 per member plus 50 per cent of the balance of the member's investment in the scheme. For example, if a member has an investment value of $100,000 ...

CFS, ING and APN freeze access to $6bn in capital

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2008
... September 2008. Similarly, ING Funds Management (ING) suspended all applications and redemptions from its Mortgage and Income Plus funds (which invests substantially in mortgages). ING's mortgage fund portfolio has approximately $1.8 billion in funds ...

Challenger squeezes redemptions

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2008
... deposit guarantee. The Challenger Howard Mortgage Fund, Challenger Howard Wholesale Mortgage Fund and Challenger Mortgage Plus Trust will now implement the new policies, which will see the volume of redemptions processed matched against the liquidity ...

AMP hit by lower discretionary contributions

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2008
... Craig Meller said that the ongoing market volatility is likely to continue to have an impact on the AFS business. On the plus side, AMP should benefit from tender wins worth around $200 million by its corporate super business. On the whole, AMP's asset ...