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QIC offers instos inflation protection

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 18 OCT 2010
One of the country's largest fixed interest managers raises the ante in the race to provide investors with income protection against rising inflation. After a brief period of incubation, Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC) has opened the QIC GFI ...

Four pillars of a good hedge fund: Ashton

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2009
Nick Raphaely, executive director of Ashton Advisors, which has links to the highly successful Paulson funds in the US, said Paulson's four pillars of running a solid hedge fund stems from a transparent model that focuses on independence. Raphaely comments ...

BlueMountain to post record returns

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2009
US-based hedge fund BlueMountain Capital Management hopes its forecast 20 per cent plus returns, lower fees and new liquidity rules will appeal to local super funds allocating new money into alternative strategies. Hedge funds are a hard sell these ...

DB back in vogue: Equipsuper

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2008
Volatile markets and negative returns have turned investors off accumulation schemes towards defined benefits, said Equipsuper. The $4.2 billion Equipsuper's chief executive Robin Burns said defined benefits account for around 40 per cent of the fund's ...

Angels targeting SMEs

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2008
Sub-prime pushed private equity out of the news but when it all settles down and the focus returns to building businesses, one sector that will get more attention is angel investing. Angel investors are like venture capital investors except they get ...

Clever but not too clever investing

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2008
Recent shakeouts in the LPT and direct property sector have prompted property investment firms including Ray White Invest to steer clear from "too clever" institutional products. RWI head of sales and distribution, David Adiseshan, said the recent chain ...

Clean, green profit machines

New figures show that clean technology companies trumped the Australian sharemarket in the performance stakes over the last financial year with one outperforming stock returning more than 1,000 per cent over the period. Based on the analysis of the ...

New blood to shake up CFS Aussie equities

Colonial First State, one of the largest equities funds manager in the country, hopes to turn its misfortunes on the personnel front into an opportunity to hunt new talent and revamp its performance track record. The revolving door at CFS has kept turning ...

Cbus wins Investment Stewardship Award

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 12 MAR 2007
Cbus has won the Melbourne Financial Services Symposium's inaugural Investment Stewardship Award recognising long-term investment achievement by a financial services organisation. To win the award, finalists were evaluated according to financial results ...

Vanguard says volatility points to indexing

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUL 2006
If you are looking for your cash plus returns back in a year's time, then roll the dice but Vanguard doesn't want to know about it. If you are serious about a genuine long-term horizon, though, then indexing is a better than average bet. According to ...