Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 6901 - 6910 of 8407 results for "equities"

Future Fund posts 1.81pc first quarter loss

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2008
... over the long term. The Future Fund holds more than 56 per cent or $31 billion in cash, with global developed market equities, debt securities and Australian equities representing 18.5, 10 and 9.7 per cent respectively. Its two billion Telstra shares ...

Avanteos launches managed account

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2008
Avanteos is building on its direct equities service and launching its managed account product to provide greater transparency and flexibility for financial planners. The managed account's first phase is an individually managed account (IMA) product ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 OCT 2008
... meeting will be released. The Australian Bureau of Statistics will release motor vehicle sales data for September. In equities news, National Australia Bank releases its annual results this morning. Supermarket giant Woolworths Ltd will release first ...

Aussie eq FMs shine in bad markets

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2008
... global inflation weathered the financial storm better than others in the past 12 months. The Standard & Poor's Australian Equities - Large-cap Sector Review found growth strategies outperformed value over one, three, five and 10-year periods to June. ...

TAAM wins $100m mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2008
... Sweden's largest pension managers, the $43 billion AP1, has awarded Treasury Asia Asset Management with a $100 million Asian equities mandate. The mandate has been in the pipeline for six months but was funded mid September. The $100 million will be ...

Optimum hires RBC Dexia

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2008
... different bond products, each with a different risk/return profile. The firm's expertise lies in Canadian and international equities. Optimum has over $2.8 billion in assets under management and offers portfolio management services to pension funds ...

Large instos to move admin in-house

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 17 OCT 2008
... managers, super funds and custodians to track and monitor alternatives alongside traditional instruments such as bonds and equities. David Stieger, SimCorp chief pre-sales consultant, said the requirement to have up to date information on underlying ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2008
... December share price index futures contract was 290 points lower at 4095, on a volume of 22,686 contracts. Macquarie Equities Brisbane adviser Helen Spencer said the market still was cautious. "It's lower very much across the board but most of the weakness ...

CSAM opens commodity fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2008
... alternatives to investing in the domestic equity market. According to Christopher Burton, Credit Suisse portfolio manager, equities and commodities had only posted negative returns at the same time twice since 1970. Despite this, Burton said the fund ...

Cuffe fund outperforms index by 13.8 pc

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2008
... very weak and volatile period." The good results have also been buoyed by the fund's early exposure to international equities, some of which have also benefited from the weakening Aussie dollar, he said. The global equities exposure included a number ...