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Private equity dodges credit knockout

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2007
While August's credit crunch knocked the stuffing out of private equity, a knockout punch it was not, and the sector has bounced off the ropes back onto its feet to "float like a butterfly". Private equity's (PE) bruises from the global liquidity squeeze ...

Saddle up the greenback

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2007
Former thoroughbred, the US dollar has morphed into a Shetland pony and the Aussie dollar is one of many currencies climbing on its back. Overnight trading Friday saw Australian dollar rise above US90c for the first time since June 1984 after the US ...

Super dodges sub-prime correction

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2007
The up-and-down market since June might have shaved 1.6 per net off 12 month super returns but over the more important three and five year results it's hardly made a dent, reveals SelectingSuper in their latest super fund performance tables for August. ...

DIY investors all cashed up

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2007
Self managed super fund (SMSF) investors may not have a crystal ball on hand but a new survey found that many of them sold out of property and equities well before the July/August market correction. A joint study of more than 2,100 SMSFs back in May ...

Papendieck to leave Skandia

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2007
Multi-manager and platform group Skandia is searching for a new retail general manager after Mark Papendieck resigned to focus on his other business interests. Papendieck has been with the company for nearly two years after he joined as chief operating ...

SRI funds beat the index

Sustainable Responsible Investment (SRI) funds are not just good for the soul, they're good for the hip pockets too after yet another study that found SRI portfolios have beaten the index in the last two years. The latest SRI Median Study from AMP Capital ...

Reverse mortgages stumped by slump

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2007
The reverse mortgage market continued its exponential growth last financial year, but housing market downturns, especially in NSW, tempered the surge, according to the latest SEQUAL/Trowbridge Deloitte Reverse Mortgage Market Study. Reverse mortgage ...

Challenger FP revs up Synergy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2007
Challenger's financial planning arm has invested in additional hardware and software to increase the processing power of its platform business, Synergy Capital Management, by up to ten times To be completed in June 2008, new hardware has been installed ...

Super fund inflows reach record highs

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2007
Australians pumped record sums into their superannuation funds over the June quarter, with $72 billion in total inflows marking the largest quarterly increase in history, according to the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA). ASFA ...

Equities sentiment still holding up

Despite the sub-prime induced equities turmoil, sentiment to the sector has stayed remarkably robust in both domestic and international markets. According to the latest Financial Standard market expectations survey, 54 per cent of respondents still ...