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Emerging markets enter hibernation

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 31 JUL 2006
Emerging market fund flows are at a virtual stasis after recent volatility and a large scale capital exodus in June, according to the latest figures released by Emerging Portfolio Fund Research (EPFR). Emerging market fund flows were virtually stagnant ...

Inaction is not the best action

Industry experts have argued that the recent market correction should compel mums-and-dads to re-balance their investment portfolios, not sit back and wait for the storm to pass. Michael Hutton, financial planning partner of HLB Mann Judd Sydney, said ...

Perennial Real Estate scores mandate and moves past $1.5bn

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUL 2006
Perennial Real Estate Investments has scored a global property securities mandate from Australian Primary Superannuation while announcing a milestone achievement of $1.5 billion in funds under management. Anthony Patterson, managing director of Perennial ...

Investors get money back from failed mortgage scheme

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAY 2006
Thirty-seven Queensland investors have recovered money invested in a failed solicitor's mortgage scheme which the Federal Court found negligently and deliberately misled them. Led by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), the class ...

Corp governance now a mainstream business imperative

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2006
Corporate governance is becoming even more important as it transitions from being just a compliance obligation to a business imperative. ISS has just released the results of its 2006 ISS Global Institutional Investor Study where it interviewed more ...

FPA appoints new CEO

The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has appointed a new CEO to replace Kerrie Kelly who departed on 3 March. Jo-Anne Bloch, formerly deputy CEO of the Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) from 2002-04 and most recently principal ...

Macq eyes $150bn rural property as competitive asset class

With its uncanny knack for spotting relatively untapped investment opportunities, Macquarie Bank plans to launch a wholesale fund aimed at the $150 billion rural property sector. The bank has researched the sector for 18 months to find out if its cash ...

Thirty dealer groups up for $300m in Westpoint recovery

Of the 75 to 100 financial advisers implicated in the Westpoint saga, class actions to recover $300 million are likely to centre on as few as 30 adviser groups, according to class action firm Slater & Gordon. Slater & Gordon's commercial litigation ...

AIOFP forms Westpoint Recovery Fund

An estimated 4,000 investors are reported to have been caught out in the $300 million Westpoint sinkhole after ASIC forced it to shut down its finance companies Ann Street Mezzanine and York Street. But the finger pointing has intensified with Westpoint ...

Fund managers doubt local equities: Russell

Overvaluation of the Australian equity market is a big concern and is driving offshore investment, say 46 per cent of fund managers, according to a new survey released by Russell Investment Group. The survey, which reviewed the opinions of 50 leading ...