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Down markets make good investments cheaper: Perennial

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2008
... was positive for most investment asset classes with hedged global property leading the way. The index revealed growth returns of positive 3.3 per cent for April, 2.6 per cent for balanced and 1.1 per cent for conservative. Thomas cited US commentators ...

Our two-track super model

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2008
... Geelong-based Chartwell share trading company where investors have given interviews describing how they expected regular returns of 70 per cent annually just illustrates the point. But the philosophy that high income people should be capable of looking ...

US dollar slips after Federal Reserve cuts key interest rate

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2008
... spur a nation's economy, they can weigh on its currency as traders transfer funds to countries where they can earn higher returns. "The markets were expecting this, so while the dollar has weakened it's been nothing earth shaking," said David Gilmore ...

RaboPlus adds BlackRock Global to platform menu

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2008
... Merging active management with globally diversified exposure to growth and defensive assets, the fund has generated gross returns of 12.36 per cent over a 12 month period. In addition the fund outperformed its benchmark, which includes four indices ...

Big Day Out for advisers

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2008
... manager Nick Bishop from Aberdeen highlighting that fixed income, which from its risk profile tend to lag behind equities on returns, also goes through periods of outperformance. What is little known though is that those periods can be long, spanning ...

CPI, housing affordability and oil bills

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2008
... standard petrol prices above $1.50 a litre. If the AUD comes off, as is expected over the next 6 to 12 months when the US Fed returns some normality back into their interest rates policy, at these oil prices Australian could be paying up to $1.70 per ...

Sovereigns in a league of their own

... said that the concerns are warranted where the sovereign fund has an unclear financial objective, other than to chase returns higher than the cash rate. "If there are no financial objectives, the implicit return on capital may be treated as zero. In ...

Lift victims may get cash back

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2008
... appropriate for those investors without a specific beneficial interest. "It is not presently possible to determine these returns, but they could be significant for those investors with a clear entitlement," concluded McGrath Nicol. Lift's client equity ...

Brookvine and ipac back Prisma

... for better risk management based on the fund's profile. Second, the fund's performance has an almost close to zero beta returns and is predominantly alpha-driven. Third, because ipac a relatively big client to Prisma, they could carve a closer relationship ...

Quattro to distribute HK giant's products

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 22 APR 2008
... proprietary global investment strategies including four equity strategies and a currency approach using leverage to maximise returns.