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Russell overhauls diversified funds

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2009
Russell Investments has revamped the firm's diversified funds, widening its investment ranges for equities and property as part of a move to a 'high conviction' investment approach. Andrew Pease, investment strategist at Russell Investments, said the ...

No bad news is no news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2009
... Yet others remain adamant that one day, job losses - which would plunge the country into an economic contraction - would arrive. It is hard to argue with this prognosis especially given the extent of the deceleration in confidence as evidenced by recent ...

Gung Hay Fat Choy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2009
Gung Hay Fat Choy! The English version of Happy New Year has not worked for financial markets so far. Perhaps the Chinese one will. The web says that in Cantonese these words also mean 'may prosperity be with you.' Indeed, may prosperity be with us ...

Santa Obama

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2008
'Tis the season to be jolly. Christmas has arrived early for equity investors. Or has it? Stock markets around the world rallied between 5 and 8 per cent yesterday and overnight, punctuated by the Dow's peeping above the 9,000 mark in intra-day trade ...

You earn, I spend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2008
Just about five years ago in late 2003, then Australian Federal Treasurer Peter Costello flagged the possibility of retiring the Commonwealth government debt and effectively shutting down the country's bond market. While markets had no argument against ...

Health Super CIO departs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2008
Health Super's chief investment officer Brendon Shepherd is leaving the fund end of this year. Shepherd has been the CIO of the $7 billion-plus fund for over five years. A statement from the firm said that he is taking time off next year to spend with ...

T.Rowe Price grows FUM ten-fold

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2008
While many fund managers suffered massive outflows in the last three years to rivals or to the market, global equity specialist T.Rowe Price grew its local portfolio from $300 million to over $3 billion over the same period. Investors big and small ...

Mortgage managers sanguine over Macquarie exit

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2008
Mortgage managers and originators say they are taking the news of Macquarie Bank's decision to quit the mortgage market in their stride, insisting they had multiple funding sources and could replace the Macquarie funding without feeling any impact on ...

Double the super for wealthier Australians

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2008
Well-off Australians are making double the effort to boost their additional superannuation contributions compared to their less wealthy counterparts, a new study has shown. Wealth benchmark's Personal Finances of Wealth Australians - 2008 Institutional ...

PI increase sparks debate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2007
CHOICE, the independent body representing consumers has thrown its support behind ASIC's proposed changes to professional indemnity (PI) insurance required by financial planners and other AFS licensees. Only this week, the Financial Industry Complaints ...