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Perpetual shuts $1bn mortgage funds to focus on income

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011
Perpetual is closing its suite of mortgage funds, which have around $1 billion in funds under management, turning its attention to commercial mortgage lending and a secured private debt series for retail investors. As of September 17, Perpetual will ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011
NEW YORK - US stocks got a boost Thursday despite poor domestic economic data after major central banks joined hands to ensure US dollar liquidity to Europe's embattled banks. In positive territory for the fourth day in a row, the Dow Jones Industrial ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 SEP 2011
... which compared with 105.91 yen on Friday. Europe's single currency dropped as low as $US1.3495 - the lowest point since February - before recovering to $US1.3648 almost unchanged from $US1.3649 on Friday. The flight to safety drove down the yields on ...

ASIC warns CFOs after Westpoint sentencing

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2011
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission reminded the industry of its legal responsibilities after former Westpoint chief financial officer Graeme Rundle received an 18-month suspended sentence. Rundle, found guilty of two counts of making ...

Not looking good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2011
Financial market waters are getting more treacherous by the day. The signs are all around us - macro-economic fundamentals are deteriorating, systemic risk is growing and technical indicators of risk assets are breaking down. I'd like to able to conjure ...

Littler departure puts CFSGAM fund on hold

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2011
Martin Littler, the senior portfolio manager of Colonial First State Global Asset Management's core Australian equities team, will retire on September 16. In February this year Littler handed over the leadership of the team to Matthew Reynolds, who ...

Perpetual divests to focus on international equities

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2011
Perpetual Limited has closed its in-house manufacturing of their International Share funds (funds) in Ireland and moved across the Atlantic to US firm, Wellington Management Company. A review of the firm's market demand, profitability and alignment ...

IFM picks up $100m HOSTPLUS mandate

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2011
Industry Funds Management's active Australian equities strategy has received a $100 million mandate from superannuation fund HOSTPLUS. The fund allocation builds on an existing $30 million mandate from two years ago. Industry Funds Management (IFM) ...

Trading volatility can protect portfolio from big swings

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011
Volatility products can be successfully used to protect a portfolio against the turmoil striking international share markets, a top executive from the Chicago Board Options Exchange said yesterday. Volatility as measured by the CBOE volatility index ...

Buy the fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011
Yeouch! You can hear this cry from New York to Rio and old London town as financial markets received a battering. Somebody must have forgotten to tell the markets it's only August and not October. Equity markets, commodity markets and bond yields (bond ...