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Tassie investment schemes wound up

HAMISH MADDEN | FRIDAY, 20 OCT 2006

... annum. The Assisted Trading Secure Income Fund held more than $3.8 million in investments and investors were promised returns of between 9 and 15 per cent per annum. The managed investment schemes were operated by SMS Advising Group, SMS Administration ...

Property promoter gets life ban and $1.1m penalty

... South Wales, including Five Dock, Liverpool, Gosford and Waitara. Investors were promised around 30 per cent per year returns which were described as 'secured and guaranteed'. But the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) found that ...

Contrarian managers make a comeback

KATE HAGE | WEDNESDAY, 18 OCT 2006

... annum. "Since we started the quarterly reports in 1990, this is the worst performance they have ever had," said Murray. The returns are in strong contrast to the last financial year, when active managers turned in very strong returns and were on average ...

Shrinking portfolios add risk

KATE HAGE | MONDAY, 16 OCT 2006

... opportunities from the original, less concentrated portfolio." "However, it does not follow directly that this will deliver higher returns for investors. They are likely to get higher volatility, but the concentrated portfolio may produce similar returns." ...

MLC analyst bags 2006 Future Leaders Award

... prize against a total of 18 entries for his paper which proposed introducing compulsory after-tax reporting of investment returns. He also suggested ways in which the investment and superannuation industries could divert their focus away from short-term ...

ANZ gets into the sustainable investment game

HAMISH MADDEN | FRIDAY, 13 OCT 2006

... designed to give wholesale investors access to leading sustainably operated companies. ASPRIT is a six year investment and returns are linked to the performance of the Sustainable Leaders Australia Fund (SLAF) run by Sustainable Asset Management (SAM). ...

Exotic and unequitable fees on the rise

KATE HAGE | THURSDAY, 12 OCT 2006

... Wright, said unattractive structures that reward fund managers performance fees even when they provide investors negative returns are present in over half the new products coming to market. "We don't like performance fees paid over short-term periods ...

Zurich appoints Denning Pryce to manage new income fund

HAMISH MADDEN | WEDNESDAY, 11 OCT 2006

... strategy. Zurich Australia's director of investments, Matthew Drennan, said the high yield fund was aiming to deliver returns by focusing on Australian equities and derivatives strategies without leveraging investments. "The fund is designed for investors ...

Lodestar absolute return fund awarded buy rating

KATE HAGE | WEDNESDAY, 11 OCT 2006

... said that although the fund has shorting capabilities, like many funds of its type, they are currently deriving their returns from beta or market exposure. "They have a high amount of beta exposure for an absolute return fund, but they have proven to ...

Risky LPTs distorting the sector: Macquarie

HAMISH MADDEN | TUESDAY, 10 OCT 2006

... compared to five to seven years ago - there's a difference between trusts that derive approximately 100 per cent of their returns from rental income and trusts that have a whole lot of other things going into them," Dix explained. With some of the larger ...

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Treasury responds to Debelle's review into the AOFM

KARREN VERGARA

Treasury has responded to the Guy Debelle-led review into the Australian Office of Financial Management (AOFM), agreeing to all six recommendations.

Bravura ups guidance, reports earnings increase

RIDDHIMA TALWANI

Bravura Solutions informed investors cost discipline will protect its full year earnings result after a client migrated to a Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) early in the year.

MaxCap hires from Vanguard, AustralianSuper

MATTHEW WAI

MaxCap has welcomed two senior directors, including a portfolio manager from Australia's largest super fund, reporting to the recently named chief executive Kylie Robb.

Zenith snags mandate from Granite Bay

MATTHEW WAI

Granite Bay Private Wealth has selected Zenith Investment Partners to support their investment governance and due diligence.

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