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Bottoms up

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 22 OCT 2010
... the performance of a country's stockmarket. According to a study in "Triumph of the Optimists" by three academics at the London School of Business, Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh and Mike Staunton, which used more than a century worth of data from 83 countries ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2010
... attributed the broad-based sell-off to global currency plays, which he said caused the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the London Metal Exchange to trade in an identical pattern until yesterday. "It's a currency situation where something had to give... ...

AvSuper awards hedge fund mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2010
... manager, multi strategy fund of hedge funds. The two new managers are replacements for the fund's previous investments in London-based Duet Alternative Investments and Colonial First State. CFS' fund of hedge funds strategy was wound up around two years ...

AXA IM gains more from European property

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
... bought last year that was already up 31 per cent following a revaluation this year. Similarly, the fund bought a property in London last October which, after the fund sold the leasehold interest to a developer, rose 25 per cent in value. Patel said it's ...

Good vintage yields strong returns

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2010

Going global with Threadneedle

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 7 OCT 2010
Australian investors should not fear the effects of rising currency on their international portfolios, according to a London based fund manager. "Don't assume that with a strengthening local currency you are going to be worse off investing internationally. ...

Pengana launches Australian Market Neutral fund

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 5 OCT 2010

More US investment banks close prop desks

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 1 OCT 2010
... Bank of America/Merril Lynch traders being let go are believed to come from locations across the globe including New York, London and Hong Kong, and amount to as much as a third of the company's prop trading business. Bank of America does not have as ...

SSgA hires NYSE exec to join ETF team

MEDIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 1 OCT 2010
... director and global head of ETF product development. In this new role, Ebner will be based in State Street Global Advisors' London office and responsible for developing and launching State Street's exchange traded funds worldwide. He reports to James ...

Liquidnet signs deal with Instinet

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 27 SEP 2010
... blotter interaction from Newport 3," said Lesko. Liquidnet provides access to 36 equities markets globally, in addition to London and Luxembourg listed GDRs. Over 15 billion shares were traded in these markets during the first half of this year. Newport ...