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Winton Capital wins Future Fund mandate

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2011
... historically been allocated 34 per cent to commodities -including energies, metals, crops and livestock- 21 per cent to currencies, 20 per cent to equity indexes and 25 per cent to fixed income by risk. "Winton is delighted and honoured to receive this ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2011
... Soros, about him selling off gold and silver investments and that's putting a fair bit of pressure on the commodity currencies, so the Aussie is getting hit pretty hard," Mr Capurso said. "The Aussie is weaker against all currencies except the kiwi (New ...

Mason Stevens releases global equity managed account

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2011
... that come with investing each and every individual client offshore such as handling multiple exposures to different currencies within the one portfolio. "We believe we are the first managed account provider to offer direct global stock portfolios to ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2011
... traded. The Australian dollar also passed the 110 US-cent mark as the US dollar continued its weakness against most major currencies. On Monday morning the Australian unit reached 110.20 US cents, its highest level since the currency was floated in December ...

Up, down or sideways

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2011
... rally in the Australian dollar could be explained. But again, I warn of the danger of extrapolating -- especially with currencies, which could reverse course at the turn of a dime. Currencies are made to float in order to help economies adjust back to ...

RBS targets retail with ETIS launch

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
... just those of their local bourse and deals can be settled in Australian dollars as opposed to paying international currencies for reference shares. "Retail investors who want to buy US shares can now avoid the difficulty of setting up and maintaining ...

Fed money drives black swans away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 APR 2011
... failed to keep financial market optimism down. Equity markets are up, commodity markets are up and so are commodity currencies. Have you seen the Australian dollar lately? And gold? And other precious metals? And agriculture? And energy? And the S&P ...

Commodities rising

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 MAR 2011
... investors had been purchasing precious metals as hedge against lingering uncertainties and the debasement of paper currencies resulting from the pumping of money, money, money by the world's biggest central banks. The tension in Libya and the MENA region ...

PineBridge enjoys strong inflows in EM debt

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2011
... suggesting more headroom. The third way Australian investors can benefit from EM debt is that it gives them exposure to currencies that are not linked to the commodities market, or have lagged behind in terms of their currency gains relative to, say ...

Rogue trader banned for four years

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2011
... enforceable undertaking signed with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). Perkin, 51, traded foreign currencies from a pooled fund under the name of Crusader Trading Limited, which he operated from the Gold Coast from 2008 to December ...