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Alternative investing steadily going mainstream: JANA

... between 10 to 20 percent," he said. JANA, which manages over $90 billion of assets for 58 funds, including eight of the country's largest super funds, started introducing alternative investments to their clients in the early 1990s. The group garnered ...

New AFA chief eyes under-insurance and business succession

... when the number ran closer to several thousand. There are currently more than 15,000 registered financial planners in the country. "We want to be a forum to bring the industry together and that means engaging with the manufacturers, the life insurers ...

Daily economic update

... Interest rate watchers are also worried over the US budget. The US Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that the country's budget deficit will increase to US$337 billion in 2006 from a deficit of US$319 billion last year. The Bush administration ...

Daily economic update

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and financial markets will welcome the country's latest inflation figures. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reported that headline consumer prices rose by 0.5 per cent in the December quarter - less than ...

India is 30 per cent overvalued: Citigroup

The Indian market is suffering from too much of a good thing with huge foreign flow of funds into the country making it too expensive to invest in their equities, according to Citigroup. Ratnesh Kumar, head of India Research at Citigroup, said that ...

QIC launches alternative funds

The fourth-largest wholesale fund manager in the country has launched two alternative funds designed to capitalise on global opportunities. The QIC Global Macro Fund and the QIC Tactical Return Fund will invest in currencies, commodities, equities and ...

Ethical investment education comes online

... will help imrpove the ethical investment skills of our financial advisory team that numbers more than 1,300 across the country." The course's content has been developed by EIA and will be offered through a three hour online session that uses case studies ...

And the award goes to Asgard, Macq and CFS First Choice

The top three investment platforms in the country - Asgard adviserNET, Macquarie Wrap and CFS First Choice - are within a hair's difference of each other on the performance stakes, according to a recent survey on the best of the best in the platform ...

City slickers to face higher bankruptcy rates: ITSA

... number of bankruptcies reported in the previous year. On a more positive note, the incidence of bankruptcies across the country in the last quarter fell by 9.04 per cent versus the same period last year. And Western Australia staved off financial hardship ...

Bravura appoints former BT head of tech as chief tech officer

... technology at BT Financial Group has joined Bravura Solutions as chief technology officer, a hiring coup for one of the country's fastest growing financial software solutions provider. Enda Mahoney joins Bravura this month after several years with BT ...