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Credit Suisse puts twist on hedge indexing

Credit Suisse has launched a new indexed leveraged hedge fund, with a unique daily liquidity feature and exposure to multiple hedge fund strategies and managers. The Credit Suisse/Tremont Index Strategies Fund, which opened two weeks ago, provides retail ...

Aussies in ever greater debt: MLC

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2007
Continued global growth, corresponding liquidity and a "voracious appetite for risk" have driven Australians to record debt levels, beating the US, France, the UK and Italy over the last five years, according to MLC. MLC investment strategist, Brian ...

QSuper champions fin literacy

QSuper, the superannuation fund for the Queensland Government, will roll out a host of initiatives that will help improve the financial literacy of its 470,000-odd members, including the largely overlooked Gen X and Gen Y segments. A major supporter ...

Economic round-up: Business up, sentiment down

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2007
Despite continued buoyancy in business activity, consumer sentiment took a tumble in June as Australia's optimism towards future family finances and the economy begins to wane. The May NAB Business survey showed a continuation of elevated business activity ...

NZ managed funds hit A$56 billion

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2007
New Zealand managed funds assets have reached A$56 billion, according to the Reserve Bank of NZ, after limping forward just 9 per cent during the year to end March 2007 helped by the NZ Stock Market that returned only 11 per cent. The figures do not ...

Going green means getting ahead: RepuTex

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2007
Going green has its advantages, and they don't just come in the form of a lighter conscience, according to RepuTex's latest index figures. The numbers show that in the year to date and over a five year period, RepuTex's RTX Environmental Growth Index ...

Balanced funds tip towards alternatives

A new Deloitte survey on what asset classes a balanced fund typically invests in found falling demand for fixed interest and a marked shift towards alternative assets. The survey looked at asset allocations for balanced funds in 2002 and how they compare ...

Regulation of private equity unlikely to change

Regulation of private equity firms is unlikely to change, Jeremy Cooper, deputy chair of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, told an industry conference this week. Cooper told the annual conference of the Securities and Derivatives ...

Economic round-up: Wage wars

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2007
In Western Australia some small businesses have had to close because they cannot compete in the wage wars with mining companies who are offering premium pay packets to workers. There is increasing pressure on the hospitality, retail and manufacturing ...

Economic round-up: Economists weather forecast

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2007
Australia's current account deficit is expected to have narrowed in the first quarter where exports climbed and companies paid less interest on their overseas borrowings. The current account deficit is the broadest measure of trade because it includes ...