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Beggar me not my neighbour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2013
... run for the all-time high it reached back before the GFC stood for the Geelong Football Club and not the Global Financial Crisis. The S&P 500 index closed at 1,482.42 points overnight - 82.73 points (or 5.29%) shy of the 1,565.15-point peak of 9 October ...

Hillross nudges $1bn in FUM

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2013
... $500 million at the end of 2008 to more than double its size over a challenging period that included the global financial crisis and continued volatility in investment markets," he said. Experts' Choice is a range of wholesale managed funds employing ...

Qsuper to champion tailored options

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2013
... Holzberger. Holzberger said that Qsuper had been researching the tailored scheme for many years, with the Global Financial Crisis driving home the importance of achieving an adequate retirement outcome for its members. One theme that came out of Qsuper's ...

Insto investors confront liquidity crunch

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012
Institutional investors have responded to liquidity concerns flagged by the global financial crisis by rethinking their asset allocation strategies, according to a new State Street report. The research, entitled The Asset Owners' Perspective: Evolving ...

Insto's ignoring climate change

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2012
... in some of Australia's largest financial institutions, said a prominent economist. Just like during the global financial crisis, when sub-prime risk left many reeling, the investment dangers of Climate Change are now being ignored, said Dr John Hewson ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2012
... Tuesday to discuss policing the banking sector more effectively from September 2013 to prevent another global financial crisis. After nearly four hours of talks, ministers said more time was needed and called for a fresh gathering next week. HONG KONG ...

Multi-asset funds react to lack of diversification

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2012
... a mind shift. "There is little doubt that traditional multi-asset class funds disappointed during the global financial crisis," said Stewart Gault, senior analyst at Lonsec Research. Once regarded as a 'set and forget' product, Gault explained that the ...

Abernathy snubs IMF liquidity drivel

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2012
... be forced to hold extra capital to help protect against damage from any fresh shocks deriving from the global financial crisis. Abernathy, executive director and chief investment officer at Clime, meanwhile, thinks that these measures amount to closing ...

Bear market end in sight: AMP Capital

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2012
... Investors dined out on the returns provided by easy credit in the early part of the last decade only for the global financial crisis to wipe out them out again. Through 2009 and early 2010 the stock market benefited from a quantitative easing fuelled ...

Asset consultants influence to grow amid industry change

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2012
... Compulsory superannuation has created a vast $1.2 trillion pot of wealth for fund managers to mine, while the global financial crisis has emphasised the need for investors to allocate to an increasingly diverse array of asset classes. These two factors ...