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Low frills, high returns

... Hyperion's director in institutional business. Instead, their investment strategy is fairly simple: out of 200 Australian stocks, pick the ones with strong interest cover, for example, and out of those stocks, pick the top 40 based on five-year risk ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2007
... rose 79 cents to $42.98, while other banks fell as the subprime mortgage losses continue to play out amongst financial stocks globally. At 1233 AEDT, Westpac had fallen 28 cents to $28.70, Commonwealth Bank was down four cents to $59.87 and ANZ had lost ...

Portfolio Partners predicts 30-year resources boom

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2007
... Trust to take advantage of it. The trust will invest in oil and energy, as well as base metals and small cap agricultural stocks. Ian Lang will run the oil and energy sector, while Nick Pashias will look after metals and Stephen Croft will oversee small ...

Sub-prime's house of cards

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2007
Like a house of cards near an open window, many things tumbled overnight - US shares, the ASX/S&P 200, Asian stocks, the FTSE, US bond yields, gold, base metals, the Aussie dollar and, on the upside, oil prices also dropped. Asian markets tumbled after ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2007
... points or 2.55 per cent to 6521.6, while the All Ordinaries shed 159.6 points or 2.37 per cent to 6568.5. NEW YORK - US stocks were down by the afternoon with the Nasdaq down by as much as three per cent, the worst percentage fall for the index since ...

Hunter Hall turns deep green

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2007
... to animals, destruction of the environment and uranium mining. The fund's main investment focus will be renewable energy stocks, environmentally focused technology stocks, medical, biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies, education and communications ...

Sub-prime chewing up financials

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2007
While the sub-prime mortgage monster continues gnawing away at financial stocks, oil is boiling towards $100 a barrel and China is snatching wads of its foreign cash reserves away from the green back. The US financial sector is still suffering a sub-prime-mauling ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2007
... benchmark S&P/ASX200 index closed up 64.4 points to 6692.4, while the all ordinaries added 69 points to 6728.1. NEW YORK - US stocks fell significantly, with nervousness around the credit market situation, the economy and company profits. Meanwhile ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2007
... benchmark S&P/ASX200 index ended 45.7 points higher at 6628, while the All Ordinaries put on 39 points to 6659.1. NEW YORK - US stocks ended higher on Tuesday as oil prices moved over $97 a barrel, pushing up shares of Exxon Mobil Corp and other energy ...

Markets shake rattle and roll

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2007
... when China's State Administration of Foreign Exchange Control announced that Chinese individuals would be permitted to buy stocks traded on the Hong Kong stock exchange through the DII scheme, the Hang Seng rose by 40 per cent. Global analysts were also ...