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Wayne the nation builder

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2008
... 'big idea' centrepiece holding the Budget together is the suit of investment funds that will propel Australia to near the top of global sovereign fund league table. "Tonight I announce three new funds that will provide more than $40 billion for capital ...

First State leads UK adviser fund scoreboard

The UK arm of homegrown fund manager Colonial First State scooped the top six spots in a new report that looks at the top 100 fund managers in the UK based on consistent performance. London-based financial adviser publication Professional Adviser published ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2008
... after Citigroup raised its forecast for the price of aluminum, lifting shares of Alcoa Inc 6.6 per cent. Caterpillar Inc, a top maker of earth-moving equipment, also rose. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 130.43 points, or 1.02 per cent, to end ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2008
... ended lower: The Dow lost 2.4 per cent, the S&P 500 slid 1.8 per cent and the Nasdaq tumbled 1.3 per cent. LONDON - Britain's top share index shed 1.05 per cent for its first weekly fall in a month, as a hefty loss in US insurance giant AIG sent financials ...

Industry responds to APRA report

... and their client. Renato Mota, general manager of investor solutions at investments and platform provider IOOF, one of the top five-ranked retail funds based on SelectingSuper data, said that fund members should also look at what's being compared with ...

ASEAN's mute economic muscle

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2008
... group. ASEAN nations are nonetheless strategically very important to Australia even though we don't even rank among their top 10 of inward investors. The top three are Europe, Japan and the US which account for 54 per cent of investments into the region. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2008
... Thursday as a surge in global commodity prices propelled mining and energy shares higher, while technology shares gained after a top strategist said they were a good value. Oil prices rose to a third straight closing record high and metal prices advanced ...

Less clients, larger loan sizes

... clients have been spooked by sharp declines in global markets, they named emerging markets and Australian equities as the top three to invest or gear up in. "Brokers expected the strongest growth to come from emerging market (61 per cent) and Australian ...

Bear market poses threat to mining

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2008
Continued global demand for resources has seen the materials sector become an investment darling in recent years, but it would only take a prolonged bear market or a second credit crunch to topple the sector from grace, according to Lincoln Indicators. ...

Perpetual value in retirement : SelectingSuper

Perpetual SHARE-PLUS climbed from its 29th ranking to number one in the SelectingSuper Top 50 Australian Equities retirement fund table, proof that its conservative style of investing, which struggled in the bull run of recent years, is back in vogue. ...