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Don't bank on broad themes: BTIM

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUL 2010
Investors can't rely on broad themed-based strategies and should focus on picking the best stocks, according to one of the largest fund managers in Australia. Crispin Murray, head of equity strategies at BT Investment Management (BTIM), said the fund ...

APRA dictates investment option labels

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUN 2010
The prudential regulator has drawn a line in the sand on how super fund investment options are to be labelled and announced it will introduce risk-based criterion for how diversified investment options will in the future be categorised. The move kills ...

To spend or not to spend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUN 2010
Financial markets have comeback to reality after being distracted by the renminbi sideshow courtesy of the Peoples Bank of China. They've woken up to the reality that their dream of a floating, dearer yuan is just that a dream. Oh yes, the PBOC tried ...

Great disappointment

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2010
Ok, ok...there's no defending the indefensible, so I wouldn't even try. Now you know what happens when hype meets reality. The S&P 500 index plummeted by 3.44 per cent when "great expectations" on the US jobs front turned out to be a "great disappointment". ...

True Lies

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAY 2010
Lies, damned lies! This was China's response to a Financial Times report that its State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) met with foreign bankers to discuss reviewing its holdings of Eurozone bonds. SAFE manages Beijing's US$2.4 trillion worth ...

Up, down and round and round

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAY 2010
"Upside down Boy, you turn me Inside out And round and round..." - Upside Down, Diana Ross If there's any observation that can be made about Wall Street's movement overnight, it is that investor sentiment remains fragile. Just when financial markets ...

UniSuper reviews illiquidity risk

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 16 APR 2010
The $25 billion-plus UniSuper is intensely reviewing illiquidity risk across its investment portfolio - and while the fund currently has "limited appetite" for illiquid assets, it is not ruling out one or two more big ticket mandates in unlisted investments. ...

Data data everywhere

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2010
Mondayitis. This and the flood of first-tier economic data set to be released later in the week will keep the Australian financial markets well, a bit out of sorts today. Friday night's performance on Wall Street was not telling enough to sway Australian ...

Positive spin to bad news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2010
Analyse this! US home sales tumble big time as Wall Street rises. Yes Virginia, the past two days of trading activity on The Street exemplifies the equity market's wild and wacky psychology -- that's if you're watching the daily ups and downs. Yesterday ...

Sentiment stirs bad mood

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2010
OMG! We're in big trouble now - very...big...trouble. Didn't I tell you Virginia? Financial markets see what they want to see and hear what they want to hear? The Dow dropped by more than 100 points -- it's about one per cent in percentage terms but ...