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Barriers to hedging

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2007
The hedge fund industry's current growth will plateau unless the three big obstructions of high fees, low transparency and poor liquidity are removed, according to JANA managing director of asset consulting Ken Marshman. Increasing superannuation fund ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2007
... or 1.9 per cent, to 6100.8 while the All Ordinaries added 111.1 points, or 1.85 per cent, to 6124.7. US stocks rose for a third successive session on Wednesday, a day after the Federal Reserve reassured investors about the economy, and technology bellwether ...

UK alternative weightings quadruple

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2007
... some fund managers. "Property has, perhaps more than at any other time in recent history, now established itself as the third asset class amongst pension fund investors, offering diversity to complement both equities and bonds," said Simon Latham, managing ...

Australia IT needs more R&D

... Benchmarking IT industry competitiveness" has found that when compared to its Asia Pacific neighbours, Australia ranked third. The Index noted that Australia performed well in the majority of categories including overall business environment; information ...

Income does not drive wealth: ABS

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2007
... average the top earners they were however the least wealthy in the nation. Conversely, while Sydney households were only the third highest earners they nonetheless turned out to be the richest. By contrast, Melbourne households achieved only the fourth ...

Sub-prime contamination causes market carnage

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 2 AUG 2007
... investment funds. Bear Stearns, already embarrassed by the implosion of two of its hedge funds, had earlier announced a third fund with roughly A$1 billion in mortgage investments was facing losses. Rumours followed that a significantly larger hedge ...

Australian economy to lose shine in 2025

... currently leads the way with more than US $13 trillion GDP followed by Japan with more than US $4 trillion and Germany on third place with just more than US$3 trillion. But by 2025, the dynamics would change such that the US still has the top spot with ...

Alternatives rewrite custody

... separate entity," said the unit's new head Martin Archer. This is a far cry from the days when custodians were merely passive third party safekeepers of assets and providers of basic transactions and settlements. Today, investment managers are outsourcing ...

Super boomtimes as confidence goes stratospheric

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2007
The savings explosion ignited by Simpler Better Super has attracted so much money into super that it's never been healthier, while booming returns mean it's never been happier. It's having long term impacts too as analys released by AMP in association ...

Gloves come off over ASX monopoly

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2007
... Lynch, Citigroup, and Macquarie. AXE is hoping to be operational by August and Liquidnet are targeting a launch date in the third quarter. LiquidNet, ranked among the top ten brokers on the NSE, Nasdaq and LSE, and traded an average of 53.6 million shares ...