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Angels targeting SMEs

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2008
Sub-prime pushed private equity out of the news but when it all settles down and the focus returns to building businesses, one sector that will get more attention is angel investing. Angel investors are like venture capital investors except they get ...

Central banks try again to lift liquidity

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2008
... days, rather than overnight as at present. One practical feature of the auctions is that it may allow primary dealers to sell AAA-rated mortgage-backed securities to the US Fed on more favourable terms. The second dimension to the plan is that the US ...

BlackRock fund treads allocation balance

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2008
... encompass market movements. According to BlackRock product specialist, Vincent Lo Blanco, the firm's ML Asset Allocation Alpha (AAA) Fund has taken these predictions in stride and incorporated appropriate position sizing, target risk and returns to the ...

Under Aviva's umbrella

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 14 FEB 2008
... among its members. Eligible members with a minimum $1,500 balance in Aviva's National Business Super product, which was ranked AAA by Selecting Super, automatically receive a minimum level of insurance cover regardless of medical history. The product ...

ARIA looking for new CEO

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2007
... Office. ARIA is one of the largest superannuation management groups in Australia with $20 billion in assets. Its PSSap fund is AAA rated by SelectingSuper and is one of the fastest growing funds in the country.

Investors want to unpack asset-backed transactions

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2007
... on the part of investors. They failed to discriminate between securitised products and did not adequately question why one AAA rated product was at a margin of 20 points over swap but another was trading at 100 points over. "Transparency is lacking on ...

2007 Rainmaker SelectingSuper Awards winners

... themselves, spurred by the choice legislation. The winners, screened from 25 semi-finalists, were selected from a pool of AAA-rated funds, which were then judged further based on quantitative and qualitative analysis of their performance and innovative ...

BNP funds keep heads off block

... Australian time. Previous loss expectations varied between 4 and 5 per cent. A BNP spokesperson said the assets owned, mostly AAA and AA rated, did not suffer any default in payments or downgrading, which explained the result. "This confirmed that BNP ...

On the sub-prime defensive

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2007
... Council's total investment portfolio. Manly defended its choice in the Federation product considering it's Standard & Poor's AAA rating meets the NSW Local Government Minister's investment guidelines. However the underlying 'bundled' securities in CDOs ...

BNP thaws out frozen funds

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2007
... Dynamic fund dropped around four or five per cent. BNP also pointed out its funds invested on average over 90 per cent in AAA and AA securities, which have not been downgraded or defaulted in recent months and any valuation problems stemmed from market ...