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DFA funds "holy grail" research on Aussie equities

One of the leading passive fund managers in the world, Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA) has funded an Australian-based research to find the "holy grail" model of evaluating Australian equities. UQ Business School's head Professor Tim Brailsford, Monash ...

Real estate a global game: LaSalle

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 SEP 2006
Globally is simply the best way to look at your listed real estate allocation, according to LaSalle Investment Management Real Estate Securities. According to managing director, Stanley Kraska, Jr, there are two simple reasons that global listed real ...

Tyndall bolsters Aussie equities team

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 12 SEP 2006
Tyndall has added to its Australian equities team with the appointment of a new dealer, Australian shares. Adam Ritter will assume responsibility for all of Tyndall's Australian equities dealing and derivatives trades and providing feedback to portfolio ...

It's Perennial all over again: Macoun

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 SEP 2006
Ian Macoun, co-founder of Perennial, said he would be doing it all over again with the launch of a new "house of boutiques", something he argues will be the best solution for boutique managers who struggle in other ownership structures. The new business ...

Zenith names top global managers

BT Financial, Platinum, Morgan Stanley and PM Capital have been named top of their league as part of the annual International Shares Sector Review by research firm Zenith Investment Partners. Zenith, which provides research and fund manager ratings ...

No conflict, more interest on MLC

... industry and encourage more Australians to seek advice." Nick Coates, spokesperson for the Australian Consumer's Association (ACA), welcomed the move. "We're pleased that this is being examined by a large product provider and their planner groups," he ...

Time for another Wallis Inquiry

A leading academic has challenged the government's four pillar policy and called for a major review of the country's financial system akin to the scale of the 1996-97 Wallis Inquiry. Professor Ian Harper, executive director of the Centre for Business ...

MIR wins back its five star ratings

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUN 2006
S&P has reinstated the five star ratings of four of MIR's equities funds which were placed on hold in May as a result of organisational changes. S&P fund analyst, Ken Ostergaard, said that after meeting MIR management as well as recently departed head ...

Rainmaker Marketing Excellence Awards 2006

More than 180 delegates attended last night's 2006 Rainmaker Marketing Excellence Awards which recognised the outstanding achievements in marketing, sales and business development by an individual, a group of individuals or organisation in Australia's ...

Common sense rules in portfolio construction

Investors should not abandon a common sense approach to managing their portfolio after new academic research found that many claims about the superior portfolio construction of fund managers can not be statistically tested or verified. Steve Christie ...