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Challenger names Aus equities boutique

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUL 2010
Challenger Financial Services has hired the former AllianceBernstein Australian equities team to create Alphinity Investment Management and run three of its funds. Australian equities boutique, Alphinity Investment Management, forms part of Challenger's ...

Just a typical pause

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUL 2010
... Street? My investigation showed that after rebounding strongly from their lows during both the 1990 and 2001 recessions, US equities also went nowhere for approximately five months before resuming their uptrend. July marks the third month of pause, not ...

Aus equities FMs target solid result stocks

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 9 APR 2010
Australian equity fund managers are still finding well-valued stocks despite the local market moving sideways in the past six months. The S&P/ASX 300 Accumulation Index returned more than 35 per cent in the year to January. But the same index traded ...

Ausbil Dexia Aus equities in high demand

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2010
Ausbil Dexia, which manages $11.5 billion in Australian equities, has closed its flagship investment funds to new institutional clients after opening the investment strategies briefly last year. Paul Xiradis, chief executive and head of equities at ...

Land of the free money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2010
... the same "threading water" show we've seen over the past few days (weeks?). But I'd like to add that despite this, US equities have been slowly - but surely - nibbling away at the ceiling. No one was surprised that the Fed's Federal Open Market Committee ...

Tale of two extremes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 MAR 2010
... 1990s. In contrasts to the extreme investor pessimism that characterised the mood heading into the 9 March 2009 low for US equities, there seemed to be nothing to stop share prices of companies with dotcom attached to it from heading higher...and higher. ...

ETFs slash fund fees to 15bp

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2009
... choices are ETFs or based on ETFs managed by BGI (now BlackRock): a government securities fund, a bond market ETF, a US equities ETF, a US small cap ETF, an international equities ETF, and target date funds that are composites of the other five options. ...

Low rates to stay

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2009
... losses were so far, far better than the 125,000 pink slips market expected have been handed to workers in the month. US equities didn't know which way to jump - rejoice that jobs (the sole variable that has put a question mark over the strength/continuation ...

Sell dollars to buy stocks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2009
... Dollar Rebounds, Treasuries Gain". Yes, it had been that way since the GFC. The correlation between the US dollar and US equities - I guess you could extend that to all equities given that we all follow where Wall Street goes - had become almost perfectly ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2009
Australian shares are likely to slump on Friday after US equities fell on a stronger dollar and more signs of a subdued US economic recovery. Metals prices were higher, but the oil price fell. At 0654 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December ...