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Being smart doesn't guarantee wealth

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2007
Smart people have better jobs, make more money, save more, invest more and end up richer than dumb people? Not quite, according to a report. An intriguing study from the US has confirmed what many of us probably knew but wouldn't openly admit: being ...

Members treble personal contributions: Sunsuper

Sunsuper has announced its biggest year ever in contributions after members parked three times more of their own money into the fund during the year. The Queensland-based super fund has recorded more than $2.5 billion in total contributions for the ...

Canada next on PIS list

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2007
Professional Investment Services (PIS) looks set to add Canada to the list of its overseas operations that already include New Zealand, Malaysia, China, Hong Kong and Singapore. Creating momentum for the latest initiative, called Project 500, PIS chief ...

Ignore economics, investors are herders

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2007
Investment finance and economics are driven by very different principles and analysts and market watchers who think otherwise are making a huge mistake, according to a new study published in the Journal of Behavioral Finance. In particular, The Financial/Economic ...

Aussies in ever greater debt: MLC

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2007
Continued global growth, corresponding liquidity and a "voracious appetite for risk" have driven Australians to record debt levels, beating the US, France, the UK and Italy over the last five years, according to MLC. MLC investment strategist, Brian ...

Mining may halt but football endures

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2007
As the Federal Government commits $17 million in water saving devices for Scout halls across Australia, the water shortage crisis has been revealed as far worse than previously reported. Along with farmers, mining and other water-intensive industries ...

Fund of LaSalle funds will cut fees

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2007
LaSalle Investment Management is launching a new fund of LaSalle funds vehicle which will enable investors to tailor a property fund of funds to their needs while eliminating any double layer of fees that can come with a multi-manager structure. Investors ...

PE investment in UK boosts job: BVCA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2007
... Britain's General Union (GMB) has launched an attack on private equity managers following job restructures and losses at a car park station now under private equity ownership. The GMB has called for increased disclosure by private equity managers though ...

Macq and Citi offer best of more worlds

... zero per cent of the worst performer. An added feature is the 100 per cent capital protection for those who are happy to park their money for three years. Meanwhile, Citigroup has launched Optimiser 5, the fourth in a series of Optimiser product which ...

B&B profits jump with new funds in the pipeline

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 23 FEB 2007
Babcock & Brown's transformation into an 'in-house' advisory firm for its burgeoning specialist funds activities seems virtually complete, after it nearly trebled the amount of advisory fees, with new funds already in the pipeline. In 2006, Babcock ...