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UBS Dynamic Alpha Strategy wins large insto mandate

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014
... Fund's objective is to generate returns through active asset and currency allocation, and this strategy has delivered a 5.74% gross return per annum above the UBS Bank bill index, over the last five years. This has been achieved with around half the ...

US/EU v Russia's lose-lose is China's win-win

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014
... In Europe, http://www.notre-europe.eu/ noted that, "...whilst on average western European countries spent 3.1% of their Gross Domestic Product on defence between 1985 and 1989, this figure had fallen to 1.7%10 in 2008, and this was before the budgetary ...

Australia at heart of new Asia-centric world order

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 7 AUG 2014
... ramifications for the balance of power in the global economy. He explained that in purchasing power parity terms, China's gross national product (GNP) as a share of global GNP was less than one-tenth that of US in 1980. But in the coming years it will ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2014
... With little corporate and economic news to give much drive to the market, investors likely would look toward US quarterly gross domestic product figures and a US Federal Reserve meeting on Wednesday to provide direction, he said. At 1200 AEST, QBE was ...

WAM Capital posts record profit

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2014
... discount for the final dividend. Chief executive Kate Thorley said: "The Company has continued to grow and perform with gross assets increasing 26% to $613.2 million and a return to shareholders of 30% over the year." WAM Capital's investment portfolio ...

NAB sells $1bn worth of UK property loans

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUL 2014
... Global Investors. NAB said the sale was intended to de-risk its UK Commercial Real Estate (CRE) portfolio, reducing the gross loans balance by 20% to A£2.38 billion. It said the sale of the loans, which are either in default, passed maturity or near ...

Double digit growth for large fund managers

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2014
... Templeton Investments (19.7%), Perpetual (17.6%) and Vanguard Investments (14%) all reported double digit annual growth rates. Gross Inflows fell by 29.3% to $45.3bn during the March 2014 quarter nevertheless year on year they were still up by 17.5%. ...

Crime pays: Why new European GDP rules are causing a stir

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
... targets. From September all EU countries will be required to add illegal black market activity to their official measures of gross domestic product (GDP). The new rules are aimed at bringing into line the way member countries measure economic output ...

Australia among the big guns in millionaire stakes

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2014
... charge in the millionaire stakes were the economic powerhouses of the US, China and Japan (the three largest economies by gross GDP respectively). Rounding out the top five were the UK and Switzerland. The other countries ahead of Australia in descending ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
... economy's long-term trend of around 3.25 per cent. IG market strategist Evan Lucas said initial market reaction to the GDP (gross domestic product) figures was positive but then tapered off. "It (the headline GDP figure) is a good read but there are ...