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...meanwhile hedge fund sector returns can be synthesised

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2007
State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) said most of the returns for the hedge fund sector can be explained by their asset allocation, meaning it is possible to assemble a synthetic investment strategy to mimic hedge fund sector returns. Paul Brakke, a ...

HFA to meet full year forecast

... under management to $1.85 billion and a 107 per cent increase in net profit after tax (NPAT) to $8.1 million. The profit figure is past the halfway point indicated on HFA's prospectus where forecast full year NPAT to 30 June 2007 was pegged at $13.9 ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2007
Following the lead of the Western Australian Government, which announced a $300 million scheme whereby the State government would take a 30-40 per cent share in home ownership with 3,000 low to middle income earners, the national Labor spokeswoman for ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 22 FEB 2007
... the private sector wages growth was unchanged from the earlier quarter, the public sector growth has increased from the figure of 4.2 per cent recorded after the September data of last year. The mining, construction, and utilities industries have experienced ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 FEB 2007
... likely to be the worst in more than two decades with a reduction of the order of about 60 per cent. In the last quarter this figure has increased by about ten per cent on a couple of occasions. While earlier estimates were that the drought would take ...

Kiwibank and AMP join forces

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2007
Kiwibank announced yesterday that it would take over the management of AMP-originated loans in New Zealand and develop an ongoing home loan venture with the Australian financial services group. The NZ bank owned by the NZ postal service has reached ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2007
The Australian share market is expected to open higher after a slighter stronger lead from Wall Street. On the Sydney Futures Exchange the March share price index contract finished overnight trading up two points 5959. In economic news today, Australian ...

Mutiple super costs $315m: ASFA

MICHELLE BALTAZAR AND NICK OLIVER  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2007
... total cost of unnecessary and duplicate superannuation accounts is $315 million per year, a fraction of the $2 billion figure by consumer group CHOICE. The findings were from the "Aggregate and individual costs of multiple superannuation accounts" report ...

Survey predicts more mortgage defaults

... has found that 61.4 per cent of respondents expect mortgage stress and defaults to increase this year, nearly double the figure from the previous survey. The survey was done late last year and commissioned by Macquarie Mortgages, a division of Macquarie ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2007
... mining and construction industry have experienced a 10 per cent annual growth rate which is significantly above the national figure of 4 per cent. There are now only about 34,000 unemployed people in WA of a workforce which is in excess of 1.1 million ...