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Scientific investing wins big

... 'brawns'. On average, BGI's quant products would aim to deliver anywhere between 2-3 per cent to 8 per cent or more of alpha above the index. Proof that quant investing works is that over the past 10 years 41 out of BGI's 42 funds beat their benchmarks ...

ASIC revises regulations for AFS license holders

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2007
... immediately. ASIC has also withdrawn three guides for Australian financial services licensees in light of the clarifications above.

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2007
... prices and a negative lead from Wall Street. Energy stocks were among the few climbers after the price of crude oil jumped above the US$69.00 mark and gold miners rose on a strong gold price. The big mover was small broker and funds manger Wilson HTM ...

Enhanced index tips over $10bn

... risk profile of an index strategy. Since the product's 2000 launch, returns have ranged from 0.61 per cent to 2.14 per cent above benchmark before tax and fees. Ted Gekas, SSgA's Boston-based head of the International Enhanced Equity group, said he came ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2007
... while the all ordinaries was 29.2 points lower at 6338.2. NEW YORK - US stocks tumbled on Thursday as Treasury yields surged above 5 per cent, reinforcing fears that global inflation would force borrowing costs to rise. Major indices posted their biggest ...

Economic round-up - Baby take a bow

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2007
... household spending was concerned and this was up 1.5 per cent. This brings the year on year increase of 4.2 per cent, well above the historical average of 3.7 per cent. Good news for the supply side of the economy was business investment rising a very ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2007
... surged on news of its plan to invest in the United Arab Emirates and on a brokerage upgrade, helping the benchmark hold above 18,000. The Nikkei dipped 0.07 per cent, or 12.88 points, to close at 18,040.93. HONG KONG - Hong Kong blue chips erased morning ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2007
... CAC-40 index closed at 6,078.54 points, down 47.27 or 0.77 per cent. TOKYO - The Nikkei average rose 0.45 per cent to close above the psychologically important 18,000 for the first time in three months as Tokyo got support from energy stocks such as ...

Austock adds to award-winning research team

... right ones!" Chris Nicholls Erratum: this story initially stated the awards won were the 2006 Starmind awards. The name above has been altered to the correct name.

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2007
... 13,624.55. The S&P500 dropped 14.77 points, or 0.97 per cent, to finish at 1,507.51, after earlier climbing nearly two points above its record closing high set on March 24, 2000, in the waning days of the dot-com bubble. The Nasdaq Composite Index fell ...