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Margin calls up but investors not down

... Macquarie was selling out of resources stocks last September and see better value in that sector following the market correction. Wayne Lear, founder of financial planning group Conscious Money and a margin loan specialist for nearly 20 years, said that ...

China funds under pressure?

... cent gross of tax and fees in the year to December 2006, said she has been positioning the fund in anticipation of a correction. First, she invested in shares which are more likely to ride out a bear market and, second, the fund's exposure to highly ...

MIA predicts property slump by 2010

... Lawrence. Lawrence explained that property is a lagging, not a leading indicator, of the economy so with a sharemarket correction predicted over the next couple of years, the property market could soon follow. The market downturn could be triggered by ...

Smooth swimming for AUI Platypus

... cent over the same period. He said that part of their investment strategy, which had worked well during the May-June correction, is to invest in a concentrated pool of 25 to 35 stocks and to ignore market weightings. The fund also takes a tough stance ...

Inaction is not the best action

Industry experts have argued that the recent market correction should compel mums-and-dads to re-balance their investment portfolios, not sit back and wait for the storm to pass. Michael Hutton, financial planning partner of HLB Mann Judd Sydney, said ...

Aussie women feeling the pinch: ipac

The interest rate rise, recent stockmarket correction and high petrol costs have made women in Australia more 'financially insecure' than they were three months ago, according to the latest quarterly ipac Financial Security Index released this week. ...

Committed to Asia: Fidelity

KATE HAGE  |  THURSDAY, 20 JUL 2006
Fidelity kicked off its Asia focused roadshow yesterday, stressing it maintained its confidence in the Asian region in spite of recent geo-political tensions and global market corrections that have left some investors feeling gun shy. Fidelity global ...

Emerging markets more attractive than ever: Templeton

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUL 2006
Emerging markets volatility is a "healthy correction" and not an indicator of underlying problems, according to Templeton Asset Management, with the fundamentals of the sector continuing to strengthen. A part of Franklin Templeton Investments, Templeton ...

REST hits $10.5bn on a strong FY06

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUL 2006
... accumulating cash and investing in hedge strategies in light of an increasingly volatile market. When the overdue market correction occurs, REST will be in an even stronger position with its defensive asset allocation and outstanding money managers," ...

Double-digit returns despite recent setbacks: Intech

KATE HAGE  |  MONDAY, 10 JUL 2006
Intech Investment Consultants is tipping that superannuation funds will return 14.8 per cent to their members for the 2005/06 financial year, the third consecutive year of double digit returns. The prediction, based on Intech's Super Growth Universe ...