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Strong culture drives T. Rowe Price

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 27 SEP 2011
... service. Go to the T.Rowe Price website and under the 'about us' section, you'll find 'culture' as the top tab, one place above 'investment approach'. This is because the group's past experience and performance show that there's an indelible link between ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 27 SEP 2011
... extended gains against the commodities-linked Australian dollar. The Aussie - which just over two months ago hit a record above $US1.10 - slid to 97.53 US cents late in the session, down from 98.34 cents on Friday. Singapore ended 1.65 per cent, of 44.49 ...

Be glad for A$ weakness

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2011
... declining commodity prices, expectations for an RBA rate cut, increased risk aversion, increased volatility - or all of the above. But rather than worrying about this status symbol, Australians should be rejoicing at the local currency's depreciation. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2011
... points. NEW YORK - US stocks halted their downward slide on Friday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average hovering just above the break-even mark at the close, despite ongoing gloom about the state of the global economy. The world-wide rout seen on Thursday ...

Harvard defies critics with 21% return

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2011
... Even fixed income did well earning 8%. Absolute returns were however in the middle of the pack earning 12% only slightly above the 11% by the fund's direct real estate portfolio. Despite the fund's investment strategy being heavily focused on so-called ...

US adviser fiduciary rule stalls

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2011
... was set to be imposed on financial planners and brokers alike, in a bid to ensure intermediaries put investor interests above their own and provided conflict free advice. Prompting the Department of Labor (DOL) to tighten the fiduciary rule was how under ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2011
... 0.48 per cent to 3031.08 points. The euro dropped to $US1.3784 from $US1.3882 late in New York on Thursday, when it soared above $US1.39 following surprise central bank action to ease dollar liquidity problems on the market increasingly concerned about ...

Perpetual shuts $1bn mortgage funds to focus on income

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011
... industry and property developers with capacity." The fund backed by institutional investment last year, targets returns of 4% above the cash rate.

Dangerous currents

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011
... "The time for muddling through is over. If we do not get ahead of events; if we do not adapt to change; if we do not rise above short-term political tactics or recognise that with power comes responsibility, then we will drift in dangerous currents." ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011
... early July. US gold futures for December settled down $US45.10 at $US1,781.40 an ounce. Trading volume was about 10 per cent above this week's average turnover, preliminary Reuters data showed. Silver fell 2.2 per cent at $US39.77 an ounce. On charts ...