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Fidelity gears for reflation

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2008
... buying more US equities and government bonds - to prepare its portfolios for a market that is moving into the reflation stage of the economic cycle. "There's an old adage that says the markets can stop panicking when the authorities start panicking," ...

Time to buy Aus shares

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2008
... long-term growth. "A manager's focus on shareholder activism and corporate governance results in outperformance at this stage of the cycle, just as it probably hindered our returns in the fruity years leading up to 30 June 2007," he said. "It is hard ...

Depression no more?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2008
A depression-like stockmarket tumble needs a depression-like bounce back. This is what the equity markets' got overnight as Wall Street staged its biggest rally since October 1931. Equity markets across Europe and the US recorded spectacular one-day ...

Property downturn over: RP Data

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2008
... According to national RP Data property research director Tim Lawless, the residential market has now passed through the lowest stage of the cycle. But what's spearheading this latest development? Lawless claims the 100 basis points cut to the cash rate ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2008
The Australian share market is set to fall at the open after world stock markets plummeted on Monday as panic-stricken investors doubted whether a Wall Street bailout package would stem the global financial crisis. At 0806 AEDT, the December Share Price ...

UBank brand not quite ready for NAB

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2008
National Australia Bank chose the height of the second stage of the great credit crunch as the right time to introduce its alternative retail bank brand UBank to the Australian market. The first product for NAB's UBank is an aggressively priced three-month ...

ESG buck stops with super

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2008
... in UBS which are offshore through our wealth management and investment bank, there's not the scale in Australia at this stage to bring many of those resources onshore," Connolly said. "It's going to come from further up the food chain like the super ...

Omgeo expands derivatives tech

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2008
... technology, the company is poised to change the way the industry manages counterparty risk. Counterparty risk has taken centre stage as more fund managers increase their use of derivatives and as a result, increase the amount of their collateral to manage ...

Boutique incubators work best: Russell

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2008
... lifecycle plays a crucial role in its investment performance. The top performing managers are often those in their "incubator stage", said Eggins. "One of the key drivers behind the good results that you see from boutique fund managers early on in their ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2008
... industrial average rose 32.73, or 0.29 per cent to settle at 11,220.96, although the blue chips had been down 150 points at one stage. Broader stocks ended mixed. The Standard & Poor's 500 index rose 5.48, or 0.44 per cent to 1,242.31, while the NASDAQ ...