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Deloitte merges with analytics boutique

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2007
... capacities to assist organisations navigate data identification and acquisition, through to implementation of operational and market facing solutions." He said the Analytic Insight merger would add specialist knowledge in marketing, credit risk and information ...

Rocketing small caps slow big cap funds

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2007
... seemed to be little the manager could do to counter it. "There was really nothing they could do. It was really just market forces that was causing the drag on the portfolio," she said. Di Mascio said the analysis, performed using their quantitative analysis ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2007
... contract had leapt 39 points to 6719 on a volume of 10,413 contracts. CMC Markets senior dealer Dominic Vaughan said the market had been softer this morning, with mining stocks taking a hit. "The oil prices and commodity prices were soft last night," ...

Living in a volatile world: Pengana

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2007
... coinciding with inflationary expectations due to the shock drop in US interest rates. "You could not have asked for a better market for a volatility fund. There is a lot of uncertainty, especially in currency trading and in the US economy," he said. ...

Water's potential to float

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 AUG 2007
... Governments drowning in debate over how best to manage water, Citi has published economic research on the use of market forces and price to allocate this scarce resource. Shane Lee, Citi economist, believes opportunities are being opened up for infrastructure ...

Wizard founder builds Yellow Brick Road

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2007
... clients, and at the individual adviser level - an absence of commissions. Davies said that as it was difficult to beat the market, an investor's portfolio should be biased towards Australian markets, coupled with appropriate gearing strategies. Only ...

World first index monetises climate change risk

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2007
... which identifies the leading creators and manufacturers of clean technology equipment, products and services. "New market forces will drive innovation and growth in the development of clean technologies," Mr Grossman said. "The RepuTex Clean Tech Index ...

Kiwibank and AMP join forces

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2007
... Kiwibank will manage the loans under the AMP brand and will provide ongoing access to the New Zealand mortgage origination market for AMP. Banking is a business that is seldom spoken of at AMP. After a couple of attempts to crack the banking market ...

Government must intervene more to promote savings: CEDA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2006
... will be left behind." Deveson is calling for more policies based on what he says are the "three Ps" of growth - labour market participation, productivity and population. These include measures to promote lifelong learning and retraining, accelerate economic ...

Land of the giants: World's top 500 fund managers

... Being big does have its advantages with the survey showing that the 20 largest fund managers had the lion's share of the market, managing US$20 trillion or 37 per cent of total assets. But the landscape is changing. "The asset management industry is ...