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"Boring" hedge funds shake gung-ho reputation

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2013
... average return from the hedge funds the researcher tracks was 21.34% in Australian dollar terms in the 12 months to 31 October 2013, while the MSCI World ex Australia (Net Dividend) Index was up 38.16%. It's a similar story over three years where the ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2013
... jobs report from the Labor Department. The US jobless rate dropped to 7.0 per cent, a five-year low, from 7.3 per cent in October, and the economy added 203,000 jobs. LONDON - European stock markets posted solid gains following unexpectedly strong US ...

Unwind for Xmas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 DEC 2013
... report showed not only employment growing by much more - 203K - over the month but that net revisions for September and October added another 8,000 heads to payrolls. Following the psychology of the week, that's so good that it's bad...bad for taper ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 DEC 2013
The Australian market has opened lower, continuing a trend down since October with investors taking profits. The Australian market is down 5.0 per cent since hitting a year high in October. Friday morning's falls follow a fifth consecutive day of losses ...

APRA releases final SuperStream reporting standards

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2013
... reporting standards would not come into effect until 1 July 2014, and that the first SRS 711.0 data forms would be due on 28 October 2014. APRA addressed five separate issues raised in the consultation period by three industry groups: the Financial Services ...

Former CFSGAM exec joins Frontier Advisors

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2013
... a consultant. Sommers had previously been based in London, working on the trading floors of CIBC, Lloyds and HBOS. In October 2012, Frontier hired a former Ibbotson Associates executive as a senior consultant. "Industry funds are seen as a really good ...

AUI Healthcare Property Trust added to North platform

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2013
... continued. The Australian Unity Real Estate Investment business has over $1.7 billion in funds under management (as at 31 October 2013). Its unlisted property funds and syndicates own more than 50 properties in the healthcare, retail, industrial and ...

International shares pose barriers to entry

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2013
... with a high risk profile. CoreData conducted the quantitative and qualitative analysis via an online survey between 29 October and 11 November 2013.

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2013
... futures contract was up five points at 5,282. In economic news on Thursday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases October international trade in goods and services data, and overseas arrivals and departure numbers for October. Mitch Hooke, the ...

That evil word is back

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2013
... had been largely due to falling participation in the job market - down from around 66% back in 2007 to just 62.8% as at October (the lowest level since 1978). We know that and incoming Fed Chairman (has she been confirmed yet?) Janet Yellen told us so ...