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The kindness of central banks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2014
... calls from US brokerages advising me to load up on X dot com stock (as in 2000) and secretaries aren't buying three to four houses (as in 2007). And oh, the shorts will need to cover their positions at some point.

Finding alpha in ESG

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... more research nominated than this year. The committee behind ESG RA also observed that the market has seen some broking houses lose momentum in this field. "It may be that some broking houses have ESG considerations firmly embedded in their mainstream ...

Going solo: Australian equity houses at risk of talent exodus

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2014
Large Australian equity houses are at risk of losing their most talented stockpickers to solo projects, according to van Eyk Research. With a number of well-established Australian small cap managers at or close to full capacity, the investment research ...

Budget reply speech 2014 -15: Bill Shorten

Research houses to blame for advice catastrophes: AIOFP

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2014
The Association of Independently Owned Financial Professionals (AIOFP) said that research houses' conflicts of interest when rating products are one of the reasons behind the failure of some funds. In a submission to the Financial System Inquiry (FSI) ...

Calm over Crimea and US houses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2014
Hehe. Excusez-moi s'il vous plait. Pardon my French, Virginia. Some of the headlines made me do it. The headlines that say Wall Street's up because of easing tensions in the Ukraine and... "improving outlook for the biggest economy" (you know who you ...

La Trobe mortgage fund gets "Strong" rating

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014
... governance, and a stable financial profile". La Trobe Financial has also been strongly rated by other independent Rating Houses including Lonsec - Recommended, Zenith - Recommended and SQM Superior Research - 4 Stars. La Trobe Financial president Greg ...

Capital Group appoints two senior executives

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2014
... Brown will be responsible for relationships and business development across dealerships, advisers, platforms and research houses. He joined Capital Group on 3 February from Perpetual where he was general manager for adviser distribution. Capital Group ...

Two 'recommendations' awarded to Carnegie Trust

HARRY PAGE  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2014
Lonsec and Zenith have given 'Recommended' ratings to the Carnegie WorldWide Equity Trust in the research houses' first review of the Trust. With the aim to provide access to Carnegie Asset Management's global equity strategy to Australian wholesale ...

US Congress votes to raise debt ceiling

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2014
Both houses of the US Congress have passed a bill to increase the US debt ceiling, with no additional debt ceiling increases expected to be needed until 2015. It was passed first in the House of Representatives 221 to 201 after an estimated 30 Republicans ...