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Past performance still a bad future indicator: S&P

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2007
... their peers. They also focus on minimising losses during down markets." S&P also found that bottom quartile funds were four times more likely to disappear due to mergers or liquidations compared to top quartile funds as fund companies typically liquidate ...

Hedge fund crosses the Rubicon

... structure. According to Aegis Research, the total ongoing fees of the funds based on expected returns are approximately three times less than the sector average. Michelle Baltazar

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2007
... Bill Mitchell of Newcastle University concludes that while the western suburbs of Sydney have been apparently enjoying good times for about a decade, there is a certain degree of fragility about that wealth creation. Professor Mitchell found that the ...

State Street ploughs $715m into online FX

... and most-liquid market in the world with trading volumes of approximately $2.9 trillion (US$2.3 trillion) per day, three times the size of the entire superannuation investments market. Electronic FX trading in particular is forecast to double in volume ...

ACT Super to review investment in tobacco and nukes

NICK OLIVER  |  MONDAY, 22 JAN 2007
... briefing from Treasury regarding any super investments which may contradict government policy. However, he told The Canberra Times that it was preferable that politicians did not interfere in investment management issues. The fund is designed to meet ...

SELECT tops hedge fund ratings

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 DEC 2006
... Poor's (S&P) hedge fund rankings with both receiving five star ratings. The Select Gottex Market Neutral Fund and a two times leveraged version of the fund, the Select Gottex Enhanced Market Neutral Fund, both received the top rating from S&P, the only ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2006
... around the 7 per cent mark for some years. In 2006 China will produce about 420 million tonnes of steel which is about four times that of the second largest producer in Japan. In the last two years it has moved from being a net importer of 40 million ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 DEC 2006
... weeks time. Seven of the most polluted cities in the world are in China, China leads the world by a large margin with three times as many water pollutants as its nearest competitor the US whose economy is presently five and a half times the size of the ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 23 NOV 2006
... remuneration to job network members for placing people who have been unemployed for in excess of a year is as much as five times that for those who have been out of work for less than a year. This provides an incentive for job network members to wait ...

K2 is an absolute five star: S&P

... market conditions." "With the flexibility to take short or cash positions, we have maintained investment returns during tough times such as 2001-02 when long-only funds were negative." Michelle Baltazar