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Time out for specialist funds

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2008
... I am prepared to call an end to the model." All the members of the panel agreed that the inflated pricing and volatile trading of the funds offered by groups such as Macquarie Group, Babcock & Brown, Allco Finance Group and Challenger made them unattractive. ...

Liquidity jitters raise income yield

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2008
... opportunities it hasn't seen in 20 years. "Many securities that are fundamentally sound with very limited prospects of default are trading at levels that compensate investors more than ever before," said Peter Walsh, senior vice president at Putnam Investments. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2008
... results are due from Caltex Australia Ltd. The market awaits a statement from ABC Learning, which yesterday requested a trading halt on its shares pending an announcement. Yesterday, the Australian share market closed lower after falls in the financial ...

Advisers snub commission-free ETFs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2008
... lacklustre of support for ETFs is because overall, institutional platforms are not well equipped to provide direct share trading. But not everyone is shying away from the sector. Rick Di Cristoforo, Matrix Planning Solutions executive director of marketing ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2008
... 26 points to 4,856 on volume of 12,403 contracts. ABN AMRO Morgans investment manager Tony Russell said the market was trading on low volume with resources in favour, but with financials taking the brunt of a dull market. "Resources are stronger on better ...

Perpetual posts $133m profit

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2008
... controls." Following its results announcement, Perpetual's share price fell almost one per cent yesterday at the close of trading to $45.

IRESS buys boost profits

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2008
... our client base, and in the last few months of the half we saw lower revenue growth than the average of recent years. Trading into the second half continues that trend, leading us to expect a reduced but still material profit increase in the second half," ...

The saga continues

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2008
... exports. Today's domestic releases will play second fiddle to the financial sector anxiety that characterised Wall Street trading overnight. Scheduled for release are the Westpac/Melbourne Institute leading index of economic activity for June and the ...

More worries for US financials

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2008
... a key pipeline could resume production in the next few days also helped keep prices down. However, unlike the past few trading sessions when US equities rose as commodity prices fell, the Dow closed lower as more bad news on the US financial sector worried ...

Winton fund returns 23.5pc

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2008
Trading in futures while banking successfully on the trends of the market downturn, the Winton Global Alpha Fund has rewarded investors with a hefty 23.5 per cent in returns over a one year period. The Winton Global Alpha Fund, open to financial advisers ...