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GESB seeks more unlisted exposure

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2009
... the past 12 months, GESB's growth option lost 28.6 per cent, while balanced growth lost 22.46 per cent. Even its conservative strategy suffered a 9.68 per cent hit for the year. Its current portfolio comprises mainly traditional, liquid asset classes ...

Maritime Super sets sail

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2009
... offer to all member," he said. The fund now offers five different investment options to members; growth, balanced, conservative, cash enhanced and cash. Prior to the merger, SERF had three options and SRF had four options and those investment options ...

Rising above the average: Fiducian

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2009
... after tax of just over $2 million. But it's the experience of Fiducian's advisers and their clients that proved a conservative investment strategy pays. The group's managing director Indy Singh recalls that they analysed many of the highly-geared, highly-structured ...

Bell profit hit by bad markets

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2009
Stock broking and financial advisory firm, Bell Financial Group, saw profit after tax fell almost 60 per cent to more than $14 million last year. The group posted more than $175 million in revenue for the 12 months to December last year, down more than ...

Treasuries still strong: ML

RUTH LIEW AND MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2009
... investment grade and most are financials," he said. "We're still in a uncertain environment so you still want to have a conservative approach to what you're doing but, historically, investment grade securities are as cheap as they've ever been." Merrill ...

Dealer groups bank on strong balance sheets

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2009
... planners under its brand, only three use margin loans. He said the Storm's collapse has re-emphasised the value of a conservative management structure. "Storm expanded dramatically because they wanted to list," he said, referring to the group's million-dollar ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2008
The Australian stock market is expected to open higher after commodity prices, including gold, oil and copper, gained overnight. At 0816 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the December Share Price Index futures contract was up 41 points at 3,662. ...

What a member wants

... and remuneration of trustees. Some super funds are also departing from the traditional model of funds investing in conservative cash-like investments and equities and are instead, allocating more money into alternatives such as private equity and infrastructure. ...

Vianova weathers financial crisis

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2008
... years," he said. These loans are secured by first mortgages, provide geographic diversity and the portfolio has a conservative loan to valuation ratio of 62.57 per cent, as at the end of October.

BTIM remodels AQR mandate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2008
... result, BTIM is combining AQR's stock selection capability with its own internal active currency process, which is more conservative, across the BT International Equities suite. In addition, BTIM has completely dropped AQR's country selection strategy ...