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Small caps and Asia on Auscoal radar

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2009
... global allocation to broad cap companies and often overlook the opportunities that small cap companies [present] at various times through the cycle," said Watson. Watson said the fund is at its target equity allocations, and has no plans to change our ...

MLC targets TV for insurance drive

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2009
... into action," said Elaine Maclean, head of insurance marketing at MLC. Maclean said the commercials are screened during times when families are most likely to be watching television but are also shown during work hours to market to stay-at-home parents. ...

On A$ parity and dashed whispers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2009
... words RBA Governor Glen Stevens set speculation afire - speculation that the central bank would raise rates another seven times before 2010 becomes 2011. This would take the current official cash rate of 3.25 per cent to 5.0 per cent. Stevens' words ...

Pengana wins $66 million in mandates

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2009
... officer. As a further risk control measure, the fund's currency exposure is fully hedged back into Australian dollars at all times. "One of the benefits of this particular strategy is that it gives smaller institutional investors the opportunity to allocate ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2009
... points. Traders said the FTSE's 50 per cent rise in seven months had investors nervously looking for signs that the good times are coming to an end. FRANKFURT - The DAX slipped 68.92 points, or 1.19 per cent, to 5,714.31 points. PARIS - The CAC 40 index ...

Our fearful trip is done

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2009
... stock market valuations? Maybe. Maybe not! Remember pre-GFC? Those were the days when everyone and his dog factored in good times forever. This is not the case today. We still hear clarion calls, doubts, suspicions and dare I say it again, 'dead cat ...

Private equity firms sign PRI

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2009
In a sign of the times, two of the country's leading private equity firms, Ironbridge Capital Australia and CHAMP Private Equity have signed the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI). The UN PRI is used as a blueprint for pension ...

Earnings surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2009
... American companies to easily surpass expectations. But companies could only squeeze cost so much. Revenues - sales price times quantity - must improve in order for any company to continue to grow. Time will come when companies could fall into a Catch-22 ...

Count: 13 times lucky

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2009
Countplus has settled its thirteenth acquisition - purchasing a 25 per cent share in Canberra-based advice firm, Achieve Corporation. Achieve, founded by Simon Mitchell in 2003, is a specialist payroll and advice firm and employs 23 people. There are ...

Herding 20 cats

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2009
... September when markets were expecting a rise. The other side of the coin showed US house prices rose in July by more than three times expectations. Same old, same old. What is fresh - and went largely unnoticed - is that the G's have again expanded. ...