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Fund managers out-invest school kids

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2011
... regularly keeping up with how my shares were going, and not selling them when the prices went up," said Tsakrios. Portfolio returns for both winners were four times the period return for the best wholesale Australian equity funds. Molloy is a keen musician ...

ING senior research analyst moves to Altius

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2011
... interest spectialist fund manager was to take advantage of both credit and thematic opportunities in the market to optimise returns for investors. "Ongoing market volatility and economic uncertainty, particularly in Europe and the US, can bring attractive ...

Super funds evolve towards direct property: AMP

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2011
... management, said in a media briefing that AMP has a fairly optimistic view of direct real estate in Australia for 2012 with returns predicted of around 8.5 - 9.5%. When asked whether more super funds would invest in direct property, Judd was confident ...

HOSTPLUS, CareSuper take top gongs at AIST awards

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 28 NOV 2011
... memberships and demographics, even predicting challenges in member engagement in the coming year as market volatility hounds returns. "In this climate of uncertainty and caution, it's more important than ever that super funds continue to explore different ...

Gold Coast scam sees 20 investors lose $250,000

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 28 NOV 2011
... Sparrow and GS Contracting, with the promise that funds would be used to buy shares on behalf of the investors and generate returns of between 1% and 3% per week. ASIC further alleges that Bruhn was the sole director of these two companies and withdrew ...

Affinity launches wholesale property fund

RACHEL DAVIS  |  MONDAY, 28 NOV 2011
... enables access to the residential property market without the costs of acquisition, holding and disposal which impact the returns of property investment. This is achieved through the mechanism of a first mortgage under which the borrower/property owner ...

Hunter Hall names Lowenstein replacement

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2011
... worked as an analyst at Bankers Trust for six years. "James is a brilliantly talented investor and has generated excellent returns for our investors over the past eight years. James' appointment strengthens our senior leadership team and assists with ...

GVI $300m funds transferred to Aubrey

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 24 NOV 2011
... said Reub Hayes, chairman of Global Value Investors. Aubrey said it would apply a global long-term capital and income returns strategy. Treasury Group has a controlling equity ownership position of Global Value Investors and will continue to be responsible ...

AvSuper builds on its AllianceBernstein mandate

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2011
... AllianceBernstein to include global funds manager's Franked Australian Value service and improve the fund's after tax returns. The "significant allocation" to the value service is designed to remove the complexity of after-tax investing of the post-Cooper ...

Investors at risk of disengaging from advice

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2011
... less than two years. "Investors who have used an adviser for the last couple of years will have only experienced falling returns and high levels of volatility in their portfolio, which would understandably affect their view of their adviser. "However ...