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APA ups HDF offer

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012
... shareholders accept PPA's smaller, but all cash offer of $2.325 per HDF share - because there was "no certainty that a superior offer may eventuate from APA." APA's cash-and-scrip offer values HDF at approximately $1.3 billion, based on APA's closing ...

Long-volatility a loss-maker: van Eyk

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2012
... combination of long-volatility strategies, volatility-arbitrage strategies and absolute return strategies can produce superior returns to other approaches, including a long-only equities strategy, over the long term. It warns that simply being "long ...

APA gets HDF books

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2012
... shareholders accept the smaller Pipeline Partners all-cash offer of $2.325 per share, because "there is no certainty that a superior offer may eventuate from APA." HDF's share price is expected to trade below the $2.325 offered by PPA in the absence ...

CUA launches low cost super funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 AUG 2012
... profits are reinvested back into the business instead of paid out as dividends to shareholders, allows CUA to deliver superior products, better interest rates and lower fees," Murray said.

Treasury heavy handed on portfolio disclosure

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2012
... Codina, director of policy & international markets, FSC. "We in fact believe [the self-regulatory guidelines] that it is superior to that proposed in draft legislation because it addresses both super and managed funds." Rather than self regulate, Treasury's ...

Hastings wins UK infra mandate

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2012
... linkage to inflation to help match their pension liabilities." "Hastings will focus on sourcing infrastructure assets with superior risk adjusted returns across the capital structure of these assets. Depending upon the opportunity, these investments ...

A-REIT concentration raises active mgt questions

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2012
... whether the index is adequately diversified. Active managers with flexible mandates can [therefore] potentially derive superior risk adjusted returns."

Centralised portfolios better for tax

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUN 2012
... approach, where FUM the managers operate were funneled into a central fund, is more tax-efficient. "A central portfolio is superior in terms of managing holistic costs to whole portfolio, and in terms of return. "And risk is managed across the whole ...

PPM moves to meet IMA demand

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2012
... perspective, investing in a limited number of exceptional companies, managing company risk and minimising tax to produce superior outcomes for investors," MacNally said of the appointment. For more articles on family offices, see: http://www.fsprivat ...

Australian shares outperform all other asset classes

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2012
... prepared by Russell Consulting, has found growth assets including Australian shares and residential property delivered superior returns compared to more conservative asset classes such as cash and fixed income, over the 10 and 20 year periods to 31 December ...