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Oil up, equities down: Feng Shui Index

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2009
... expected to be favourable or not against the Hang Seng, is predicting gold to break $1,500 an ounce and oil prices to rise above last year's levels. Grain prices is forecasted to rise in October and November, universities are predicted to dismiss the ...

Free cash flow wins mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2009
Free cash flow is a recipe for strong above benchmark returns amid turbulent times, according to Epoch Investment Partners, which recently won a $173 million mandate from Suncorp. According to Andrew McKinnon, chief executive of Grant Samuel Funds Management ...

Magellan Global tops overseas shares manager list

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2009
... market collapse. According to the latest Mercer Data on fund performance, Magellan's 1.3 per cent loss is heads and shoulders above the next top performer, Walter Scott, which lost 11.6 per cent. It also did so much better than the worst performer, the ...

Planners turn to cash and TD funds

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2009
... As for Platinum, he said, "I think, to some extent, people were accustomed to Platinum outperforming heads and shoulders above the rest but it is a little strange seeing as they are still a first quartile performer." Fechner said Aviva's research gives ...

Santa Obama

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2008
... Stock markets around the world rallied between 5 and 8 per cent yesterday and overnight, punctuated by the Dow's peeping above the 9,000 mark in intra-day trade and the S&P 500 index' return surging pass the level above the zero line for the month. Similarly ...

Adelaide Bank opens Guaranteed Term Deposit

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2008
... Guaranteed Term Deposit, which provides investors with access to the Federal Government's cash deposit guarantee for amounts above $1 million. Bruce Speirs, Adelaide Bank general manager of managed funds, said the bank consulted with major investment ...

Filled half-empty glass

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2008
... third quarter worrying more about rising interest rates. They were also worried about petrol prices, with crude oil still above the US$100 a barrel mark in July, August and September. The official cash rate has fallen by 300 basis points since then. ...

Austock MA service signs six

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2008
... management services. Alan Sheen, Austock Asset Management managing director, said signing six dealer groups and boutiques was above expectations. "It's a little bit better than expectations, with this product there's probably a bit of education that ...

Term deposit with a twist

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2008
... five years to get the full benefit. At the end of the five-year term, investors are 'guaranteed' the returns of the ASX 200 above a set hurdle of between 120 to 130 per cent over the closing index price of the S&P/ASX index on the issue date. For example ...

Advisors more important than ever: Sherry

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2008
... decade. "Over the long haul, the last 35 years has delivered excellent real rates of returns close to five per cent over and above inflation, and this will continue despite the average -6.4 return in 07/08 or for that matter the plus 10 to 15 per cent ...