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Canadian pensions down again

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 21 APR 2008
... in the quarter ended March 31, pushing losses to -2.7 per cent for the latest 12-month period. Global equity as an asset class suffered the most this quarter, although the weaker loonie buffered the impact for unhedged Canadian-based investors. "The ...

S&P expands research team

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 18 APR 2008
Standard & Poor's Fund Services has appointed Leanne Fook as a fund ratings generalist to the firm's fund research team. Previously, Fook worked as a research analyst at Australian Wealth Management (AWM) for three years, reviewing investments across ...

LPTs in bargain bin

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 18 APR 2008
Investors have a once in a ten year opportunity to invest in listed property as prices reach rock bottom, said a specialist boutique investment manager. Speaking at the 2008 Skandia Roadshow in Sydney this morning, SG Hiscock & Company director Stephen ...

Linear Financial launches SMA

Melbourne-based fund manager Linear Financial has launched a new SMA product that gives financial advisers access to domestic and international equities, fixed interest and a suite of S&P indices. Linear's managing director Chris Hipkin said the product ...

Jones Lang LaSalle and CFS form Sandalwood

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2008
... More than 700 employees from both property firms will relocate into Sandalwood as a result of the merger. A new "best in class" training centre will also be established in Melbourne as a provider of continuing education and skills development courses ...

AMP Capital Core Infrastructure hits $100m

... investing in car parks, toll roads and airports more than two decades ago, back when infrastructure wasn't considered an asset class. The sector has since grown up to the point where many industry funds allocate a substantial portion of their portfolios ...

Currency replaces fixed income

... a market that trades trillions of dollars a day, investors use it largely for hedging rather than as an investable asset class. To give an idea of the size of the imarket, Davey said the FX market churns out over $3.3 trillion a day, more than three ...

Bad markets, good advice

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2008
Financial planners may be the surrogate bearer of bad news as markets continue to shed their value but one dealer group has stepped up to say there's no better time to talk to clients than when the going is tough. Robert Thomas, head of research and ...

Aus planners lead the world in business practice

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2008
More than 80 per cent of Australian financial planning practices manage their business much more efficiently compared to only 9 per cent of their US counterparts, according to Business Health. The data was collated from the Business Health's "diagnostic ...

Pension funds look in-house for governance

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2008
... pension funds have maintained a bias towards equities, with an average of 58 per cent of portfolios invested in the asset class. However, this figure has fallen from 68 per cent back in 2003, suggesting that the 70/30 rule of investing is slowly being ...