Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 4331 - 4340 of 4703 results for "Active"

Compliance maze killing product innovation

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2007
... its shared equity mortgages in a new, geared fund that will be sold to retail and institutional investors. The Rismark Active Property Trust will target a long-term geared return of more than 20 per cent a year from a portfolio of equity mortgages. Rismark's ...

Global indexing hits $6.4 trillion

... Global (BGI), State Street and Vanguard. Among the key findings were that alternative asset classes normally defined as "active" are now getting indexed such as commodities, real estate investment trusts (REITS) and global equities. The hunt for 'alpha' ...

HESTA appoints three intl long-short managers

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAR 2007
... managers to the fund in the overseas equities sector, he said. HESTA said they were looking for the managers to achieve active returns of around 5 per cent above the benchmark. HESTA is AAA rated by SelectingSuper. The managers have big shoes to fill ...

ALP Govt will boost personal contributions: Swan

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2007
It's taken two decades, but it seems superannuation is looming as an election issue, albeit a lower order one, as the Labor Party and the Government slug it out over which Party has the best future plan for the industry and for investors. Shadow Treasurer ...

Investment reporting methods must be equitable: JPM WSS

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2007
... been due to the need to reduce arbitrage opportunities (often a consequence of historic pricing) and to also facilitate active management and satisfy investor activity within more sophisticated and complex product offerings." But investment and asset ...

Emerging markets by numbers: BlackRock

... they can save on cost. BGEEM charges 0.6 per cent fees versus the 1 per cent and above fees normally charged by "alpha" or active emerging market managers. "We find that many prospective clients are unaware that quantitative managers are able to manage ...

Fund of LaSalle funds will cut fees

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2007
... risk versus return prospects regionally and move into the more attractive environments. "We're moving towards focusing on active management plays in less risky places. So if you want to take opportunity risk, for instance, why not do it in Western Europe ...

Private equity lending restrained at Westpac

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2007
... bank's approach to providing leverage finance to private equity groups at an investor briefing this week. The bank has been active in supporting private equity transactions "that are appropriately structured and bear acceptable risk," Chronican said. ...

38 per cent of US retirees like reverse mortgages

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2007
A survey by global consulting firm McKinsey & Co has found that US baby boomers will be forced to retire far sooner than they had hoped while having too little in retirement savings and holding unrealistic expectations about how they will finance it. ...

Email scams on ASIC hitlist

... than $1 billion each year in identity theft alone. "The problem isn't going away. The scammers are out there, and they're active with new tricks," said Tanzer. The Australasian Consumer Fraud Taskforce was set up two years ago to combat consumer fraud ...