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Sub-prime contamination causes market carnage

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2007
... afternoon, their biggest one-day fall in five years and slicing $1.7 billion from the company's value. The two Macquarie high yield investment funds were marketed to smaller retail investors with a total investment value of around 1.3 billion which will ...

Private equity, hedge funds at risk

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 31 JUL 2007
Up to half all hedge funds, at least one major bank and a "substantial percentage" of private equity firms in business today worldwide will cease to exist within five years, according to predictions made by GMO chairman, Jeremy Grantham. In his quarterly ...

One in five choose shares: Russell

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 30 JUL 2007
Despite the huge market gains of the last few years, only 17 per cent of the general public believe shares are the best place for savings, according to the latest Russell Market Barometer report. Based on figures from the Westpac Consumer Confidence ...

From rooster to feather duster

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 30 JUL 2007
... Negativity has swept like a virus from the sub-prime sector to leveraged loans, investment grade bonds, equities and high yield currencies. For the last year the US housing downturn seemed largely confined and companies took full advantage of cheap borrowing ...

Absolute Capital suspends redemptions

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2007
... posted a notice on its website yesterday saying that it had "closed" its flagship fund, the $200 million Absolute Capital Yield Strategies Fund. The Yield Strategies Fund is an investor in the structured credit market, which includes CDOs. Some of its ...

SMSFs and mergers drive Macq property fund growth

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2007
Macquarie Direct Property Fund (MDPF) today announced assets under management increased by almost 200 per cent over the past 12 months through a series of mergers and acquisitions that tipped in over $800m. The fund also experienced another successful ...

Magellan puts money where its mouth is

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2007
Magellan Financial Group has launched two unique retail funds that only pay performance fees when returns exceed both a relative market benchmark and 10 year Australian Government Bond yields. The high conviction Global Fund is a market-uncorrelated ...

Election looms over investment markets

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 23 JUL 2007
The upcoming Federal election could generate market uncertainty but with the two major parties' having similar broader macroeconomic policies, it's unlikely any market jitters will last. In a discussion paper on a possible election back-lash on the ...

Absolute differences among hedge funds

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2007
... investment profile as Basis Capital, which invested at the high-risk end of the structured credit market. The $1 billion Basis Yield Fund suffered a heavy fall in its net asset value as a result of a sell-off in the segment of the credit derivatives ...

Hiking partners: Aussie dollar and Kiwi inflation

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2007
Ever onwards and upwards, the Australian dollar nudges US88Ac, and New Zealand's inflation is stubbornly refusing to come down. The Australian dollar climbed steadily for a ninth consecutive day to reach an 18-year record of US0.8789 overnight. Falls ...