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More pain to come for councils

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2009
New South Wales councils may suffer more losses from their investments particularly those that have derivatives in their portfolios and not just toxic CDOs, warns an investment academic. Jerry Parwada, associate professor of finance at the University ...

Intl equities on a good run...

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2009
International equity markets have come a long way after hitting what is now looking likely their lows during the current cycle. The optimism engendered by the slowly mounting economic indications that the market has left the worst behind it is encouraging ...

Platinum holds steady in upswing

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2009
Platinum International fund, the largest global equities fund in Australia with more than $7.6 billion in FUM, ranks as one of the top three performers in global equities in the year to April, but Platinum chief investment officer Kerr Neilson, still ...

It's all about China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2009
The times...they really have changed. Will this be Generation Next's new economic order. I speak of course about the fast increasing dominance of China in the world stage. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) kept interest rates unchanged at 3 per cent ...

Merger creates 18,500 adviser force

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2009
Morgan Stanley and Citi have given the go-ahead to the Morgan Stanley Smith Barney joint venture - a move that will create a global organisation with 18,500 advisers. The deal between Citi for Smith Barney and Morgan Stanley was closed last night. In ...

Darling buds of May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2009
The month of May was always going to be an iffy one. Much ink has been spilt on research proving that the adage, 'sell in May, then go away', has a ring of truth. Well...now here we are, May's gone and those that went away regret that they did not decide ...

Mortgage fund managers review their options

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2009
Fund managers in charge of $20 billion of mortgage trusts are rolling over between 50 and 80 per cent of the loans in their portfolios, as they try to maintain a balance between the demand of investors for liquidity and the need to maintain relationships ...

APRA to monitor investment options

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2009
APRA is continuing plans to ramp up its data collections, in particular to collect performance data on individual investment options. To refine its approaches the regulator has issued another discussion paper on how it should be done, how it should ...

We've left bottom

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2009
Equity markets have come a long way after hitting their lows in March. Their run-up was first measured in days, day stretched into weeks and now...months. The optimism engendered by the slowly mounting economic indications that the market has left the ...

Instos pump $700bn into Islamic finance

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2009
The Islamic finance market has grown by as much as 20 per cent each year for the past six years and is now a $700 billion plus industry, according to State Street. The firm's latest Vision Report on the subject estimated that total assets under management ...