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Fidelity: Asia focusing on intra-region trade

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2012
... economies have not caught up enough to meet a decline in manufacturing, Urquhart said that the region has entered into a sweet spot for strong growth and consumption. "On the economic side, when countries are poor, their savings rates are high. However ...

Active risk under spotlight

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2012
... quartile of tracking error (around 400-700 basis points) in combination with on-average persistent excess returns was the "sweet spot" for manager selection. "It tends to cut off the different peaks and lows of market experience - so if the market is ...

Consumers flex social media muscle

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2011
... managers. Using social media is a way of being invited to a party without having to host it. "The retail banks have found a sweet spot with the SME's - the Internet has opened that world up for them. The banks fill the expertise gap for the SME's and ...

Apostle Asset builds distrib team

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2011
... the time to start talking about them again so we have a few managers with a few products now that are right in that's sweet spot," said Johnson. "From my perspective there a few things in the pipeline that would be worth pursuing where we currently don't ...

BOQ launches online trading

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2011
... told Financial Standard that part of CMC's wholesale strategy was to engage advisory brokers, which it sees a as a "sweet spot with retail investors looking to overseas markets and products such as gold and oil and access to FX." CMC is also planning ...

CMC markets appoints new head for Aus, NZ

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2011
... online trading. Cooper said part of the company's wholesale strategy was to engage advisory brokers. "We see it as a sweet spot in our wholesale strategy as (retail investors) are looking to overseas markets and products such as gold and oil, and access ...

Boost allocation to top active managers: report

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2009
Active managers enter a sweet spot in investments history with a three-year window to seriously make a mint for their investors, said BGI. The analysis paper, Why the financial crisis has made markets less efficient, by Andrew Jackson, director of research ...

Martin Currie rakes $500m and growing

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2009
... coming to us because of our [stable] structure," he added. Kouryialas also pointed out that the fund manager is in that "sweet spot" of being a fund manager with US$14 billion in funds under management, giving them just the right scale to operate as ...

One in 10 investors are switchers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2007
... subtle differences between each group. "As firms refine their service models to capture and retain this demographic sweet spot, they will do well to recognise each," he said.

OptiMix adds emerging markets to diversified portfolio

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 18 SEP 2006
... OptiMix to exploit the structural inefficiencies in emerging markets over time. Together, the portfolio reflects a sweet spot in the asset class."