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Morningstar buys S&P managed fund data business

... insurance groups, said that while this means there are "fewer players", Morningstar's research team has consistently delivered a top notch service. On the question of data integrity and control, he remarked, "Morningstar's got a good record in terms ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 FEB 2007
... company reports out, but they have been a mixed bag," he said. "Gold is up and so is oil. Copper was also strong as well. On top of that the banks are strong." On Wall Street, the Dow Jones industrial average fell 48.23 points to 12,738.41 as the Standard ...

Symantec survey finds IT perception gap

... versus IT executives within the same company. Among the key findings of the report, which polled more than 500 IT managers and top IT executives around the world, was that only a low 8 per cent of IT executives rate business process risk as critical ...

Meet the $9b intangible fund

... and intellectual property, are the ones that will deliver consistent and stable returns in the long term. Among the fund's top 10 holdings are Cadbury Schweppes, Pfizer and Reckitt Benckiser. In the year to date the fund has outperformed its benchmark ...

Index funds basking in the glow of 6,000

... week, investors in index funds can look back at another year of exceptional passive returns. According to Rainmaker Data, the top 10 index funds last year achieved an average return of 24 per cent, and that's without working up a sweat. The top index ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2007
... this cost may be reduced by transporting the water to the Prospect dam instead. Most recently Mr Debnam has said that he will top up the drinking water with recycled water via a $956 million plan to link water treatment plants in north-west Sydney with ...

Ignore global benchmarks: Aberdeen

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2007
... against the Morgan Stanley All Companies World Index ex Australia and the US is 45.9 per cent & If you were looking at it from a top down perspective you'd think that was a big risk, but we don't look at it in that sense." Global benchmarks are skewed ...

Dig deeper to find value in hedge funds: Permal

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 15 FEB 2007
... fund] unless you dig down." It was also pointless, Souede said, to consider hedge funds as a group. The dispersion between the top and bottom end of hedge fund performance was huge, he said, much more so than is the case for conventional equities managers. ...

DSTi appoints two at the top

NICK OLIVER  |  THURSDAY, 15 FEB 2007
Financial services technology solutions provider DST International (DSTi) has welcomed a new chief executive officer and promoted its chief operating officer to deputy chief executive officer. Tom Abraham will assume the role at the head of DSTi, bringing ...

Perpetual repatriates UK pension benefits

NICK OLIVER  |  TUESDAY, 13 FEB 2007
... benefit transfers from 31 January 2007. Mr Wang said Perpetual's QROPS status was a timely reminder for UK expatriates to top up their super with undeducted contributions as part of the government's transitional arrangement for superannuation.