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Aussie manager wins global resources award

... continues to be strong; steel is required to help build the much needed infrastructure for the rapid urbanisation of the country. The outlook for sustained demand growth will allow production volumes to continue to grow for several years to come." He ...

Better beta through fundamental indexing

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2007
... companies even though are overvalued. This can't be a very good investment strategy," he said. It also creates problems for country allocations in your global portfolios. Rather, Hsu said an easy solution is to use "non-price" factors to build your passive ...

BRICs to surge as G7 slows

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2007
... modified version of the method developed by the US National Bureau of Economic Research using about 5-10 indices for each country and 224 series in total. The good news is the OECD may not be tipping the Rudd Labor government to lead us into recession ...

The future of super

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2007
... optimisation portfolio, representing 60 per cent of a super fund's overall portfolio consists of 27 per cent in 'developed country' equities, five per cent in 'emerging market' equities, nine per cent in real estate and two per cent in infrastructure. ...

First Quadrant launches fund for all seasons

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2007
... strategy incorporated uncorrelated sources of alpha into one strategy. The sources comprise of five categories including bond country selection, global asset class selection, stock country selection, currency selection and volatility management. "Asset ...

ING Australia buys FSP Group

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2007
ING Australia becomes the third largest planning group in the country when it bought the FSP Group, adding a 145-adviser network with over $2.5 billion FUA to the fold in one swoop. The group sidesteps the industry's long-running problem on skills shortage ...

Interest rates not the only monetary policy lever

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2007
... watch savings rates go through the roof too, just like in Singapore. But with the "economic conservatives" now running the country, the chances of policy as radical as this aren't even worth thinking about.

The new government: what it means

... become law under the new government. Colonial First State, one of the biggest managed funds and investments provider in the country, has outlined what the landslide victory of the Labor party means for investors and retirees. Working class families are ...

Indian infrastructure investing fuels sustainability

ALEX DUNNIN IN NEW DELHI REPORTING FROM THE INAUGURAL AUSTRALIA INDIA FINANCIAL FORUM  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2007
... India. While the need for government and even foreign direct investment money to fund these projects may seem odd for a country boasting US$270 billion in foreign reserves and record export and currency performance, the underlying problem is India's ...

India: a country within a country

ALEX DUNNIN REPORTING FROM MUMBAI AND NEW DELHI AT THE INAUGURAL AUSTRALIA INDIA FINANCIAL FORUM  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2007
... when Indira Gandhi was Prime Minister. But when her son Rajiv became Prime Minister he was less inclined and he lead the country to becoming much more lasse faire," said M N Chaini, vice president of the Indian Merchant's Chamber who is also president ...