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Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2012
... Statistics (ABS) releases retail trade figures for May, while the Australian Industry Group/Commonwealth Bank Australian Performance of Services Index (PSI) for June is due out. In equities news, Alcyone Resources and Rubianna Resources have general ...

AMG completes investment in Yacktman

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2012
... management. Yacktman seeks to make investments in high-quality businesses at low valuations with the goal of generating out performance over the long term. The firm's two flagship mutual funds, The Yacktman Fund and The Yacktman Focused Fund, are ranked ...

More liquidity in alternative strategies: S&P

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2012
... year. "This year's annual review of alternative multi-asset products comes on the heels of a difficult 2011 year-end performance," said S&P fund analyst Jason Patton. "With all asset classes still struggling to win investors away from cash, we expect ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2012
SYDNEY - The Australian market looks set to open higher despite a mixed performance on Wall Street overnight after news that manufacturing contracted for the first time in almost three years, raising concerns the United States has joined a global industrial ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 JUL 2012
The Australian sharemarket was more than 1% higher at noon following gains on US and European markets and strong performances from resource and energy stocks. At 1200 AEST on Monday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 52.8 points, or 1.29 per cent ...

China approves cross-border ETFs

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 2 JUL 2012
... the products. Shanghai-based Z-Ben Advisors told Reuters that the correlation between domestic and Hong Kong market performance is now very high in addition to a lot of Chinese companies already listing in Hong Kong.

Wins and losses in PC default super report

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2012
... retail funds that have long argued fund selection should not be done on the basis of quantitative measures such as performance, fees or insurance premium value. The subtlety is employer workplace super becoming centred around MySuper products will automatically ...

Zenith signs ex-S&P client

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2012
... model portfolios could help advisers provided added value to their clients. "It's difficult for advisers to show their performance if they are just doing direct equities with clients, once the GFC hit there was a reaction against managed funds and a ...

Centralised portfolios better for tax

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUN 2012
... assessments, and that many superannuation funds did not take this into account. Funds could also better evaluate manager performance and fees if they understood net returns after tax impacts, he said. "It's not just how well you think your managers have ...

UHNWs target PE, commodities, real estate

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2012
... executive director, Institute for Private Investors (IPI), told the Private Wealth news service. According to the Family Performance Tracking survey conducted by IPI, 45% of respondents increased their allocation to commodities, 31% increased real estate ...