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Rising above the average: Fiducian

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2009
... described as of the vanilla variety, which delivered what Singh described as "average" returns during the bull run. But stretch that time over the five-year period and seven-year period and those invested in Fiducian's products enjoyed top quartile result. ...

Groundhog Day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2009
... Today, America and Canada held their annual Groundhog Day festivities to see whether spring would come early or winter will stretch six weeks more. Groundhog Day is rooted in ancient European folklore and purports that if a groundhog emerges from its ...

Property re-pricing to come in waves

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2009
Super funds with high stakes in global property should brace for more pain in the asset class this year although the re-pricing is predicted to come in stages and not necessarily in the order you would expect them to, according to a new survey. Global ...

Cycling for charity: Quadrant

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2009
... draws," said the super fund. Riders can ride the full 100km from Port Arthur to Hobart or choose to do a shorter 25km stretch. They will need to provide their own transport to the starting line at Port Arthur, a roadworthy bicycle, helmet, puncture repair ...

Worst of the worst

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2009
... June 1991. Given the UK's worst outlook relative to its G7 peers -- in particular the US - it does not take much of a stretch to presume that very soon the Bank of England's benchmark interest rate will go the way of the US and Japan. That is, the target ...

Ho hum

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2008
... night before the S&P 500 Index surged by 6.5 per cent. Investors are supposed to be rational. But it could be a bit of a stretch to extrapolate into good times just another bail-out announcement. American International Group (AIG), Freddie (Freddie Mac) ...

Green advice is not a stretch: Brisbane

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2008
Becoming a responsible investment financial adviser doesn't require significant changes to the business and shouldn't adversely affect client portfolios, according to Michelle Brisbane, Ethical Investment Services representative. Brisbane said existing ...

Frontier's $97bn FUA in safe hands

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2008
... median number. For some clients, Frontier lost a smaller 1.5 per cent although others lost more than 7 per cent. However, stretch the period to five years and Frontier returned 10.5 per cent, easily beating the SelectingSuper benchmark return of 9.6 ...

AXA direct property assets tops $900m

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2008
AXA has slashed its listed property trust allocation from 40 per cent to 7.5 per cent and diverted the funds to more than double its direct property assets to $942 million. The group's wholesale Australian property fund has amassed a direct property ...

Health insurance lobby lessons

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2008
The reforms to the private health insurance rebate and the industry reaction to it should be studied by everyone in wealth management who seeks to influence government policy. A furious health insurance industry came out fighting yesterday after the ...