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Not-for-profits winning but master trusts catching up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2006
Default investment options of not-for-profit funds as a group continue to outperform master trust default options but the gap has narrowed by two-thirds in just the last three years. According to research just released by Rainmaker, in 2003-04 the gap ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2006
... investigation over possible price-fixing for liquid crystal displays. The Nikkei ended up 55.15 points at 16,692.93, rising for the third day and logging its highest close since October 26. HONG KONG - Hong Kong blue-chips fell as investors locked in ...

Allco hunts niche finance acquisitions

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 DEC 2006
... Finance, a company started in 2005 that specialises in providing margin loans to investors in agribusiness schemes. Its third acquisition will be International Mezzanine Funds, an investment management company that operates the Australian Mezzanine Income ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 12 DEC 2006
... Bradstreet Business Expectations Survey reveals a continuing level of pessimism among business executives with more than a third anticipating a fall in profits for the coming March quarter compared to that of a year earlier. Fuelling inflation, 53 per ...

S&P signs up IOOF for planner distribution deal

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2006
... Monotti, IOOF's head of adviser solutions, said they chose S&P because it is comprehensive. According to Rainmaker, S&P is the third most widely used managed fund research service measured by planner reach, behind van Eyk and Morningstar. Rainmaker reports ...

BankWest and ABN AMRO win Best of the Best reverse mortgages

ALEX DUNNIN, HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2006
... by banks while ABN AMRO won the award for the best non-bank reverse mortgage. Macquarie and CommBank came in second and third for the banks while Bluestone and the Over Fifty Group came second and third for non-bank reverse mortgage providers. Unlike ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 7 DEC 2006
... Australia. WA is expected to provide about half the winter crop although the summer crop is expected to be down by about a third. NSW and Victoria are expected to have a crop just a third the size of last year's. While on the positive side the wheat ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2006
... per cent and equipment, plant and machinery by 2.5 per cent in line with the expected effects of higher interest rates. Third quarter economic growth in the US has been revised upward from 1.6 per cent to 2.2 per cent as a result of estimates from the ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 NOV 2006
... Street Wednesday the Dow Jones industrial average rose 90.28 points to 12,226.73 as the US government raised its estimate of third-quarter economic growth. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index gained 12.76 points to 1,399.48 and the Nasdaq Composite Index ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 NOV 2006
... Tattersalls Ltd holds its annual general meeting. NEW YORK - US stocks rose on Wednesday as the government raised its estimate of third-quarter economic growth. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 77.79 points to 12,213.84. The Standard & Poor's 500 ...