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Cycling for charity: Quadrant

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2009
... least $500 each from family, friends, work colleagues etc. and there will be prizes for the highest fundraiser and other random prize draws," said the super fund. Riders can ride the full 100km from Port Arthur to Hobart or choose to do a shorter 25km ...

Ho hum

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2008
... government's bail out of its once biggest bank - Citigroup. More likely, the Australian stock market was just following the random walk on Wall Street, where the night before the S&P 500 Index surged by 6.5 per cent. Investors are supposed to be rational. ...

From Wall Street to the Great Wall

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2008
Investment guru Burton Malkiel, author of the acclaimed book "A Random Walk Down Wall Street" has identified raw material stocks, inflation-linked securities and the emerging markets as the prime asset classes to invest in. Speaking at a Vanguard investor ...

BlackRock fund treads allocation balance

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2008
Global investment manager BlackRock adjusts the nuts and bolts of its asset allocation alpha fund so that the fund can comfortably ride out the volatile markets. Speaking at a BlackRock conference in Sydney yesterday, BlackRock head of asset allocation ...

APRA audit adds to bottomline

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2007
Super funds with transparent IT systems are more likely to pass random APRA audits and reduce their overall compliance costs, according to Panos Alexandratos, general manager at regulatory software company IQ Business Group. Alexandratos said institutions ...

Morningstar scores top ratings

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2007
US-based investment data researcher Advisor Perspectives has found Morningstar's mutual fund rating system scores highly on rating bonds but not so much on international equities. Advisor Perspective did three separate studies, done in conjunction with ...

Mercer opens new TAP

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 18 OCT 2007
... grasped the full extent of the Better Super changes. "In March 2007, Mercer conducted a survey on Better Super among a random sample of 300 working Australians aged 50 plus. Nearly three in four were unable to articulate any changes and only 18 per cent ...

Private equity redefines mum-and-dad investing

... probability to a takeover?" said Goddard. He explained, "Takeovers and takeover speculation tend to impact portfolios like random shots, introducing performance volatility that makes skill even harder to distinguish from luck." On the upside, Goddard ...

Share ownership down but trading activity up: ASX

There are less mum-and-dad investors in the market but they are trading more frequently and placing bigger bets, according to the latest Share Ownership Study by the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). This is the tenth study conducted by the ASX ...

Baby boomers not so super informed

... take advantage of the reforms don't know the new rules exist. Mercer Wealth Solutions conducted a study in March where a random sample of 300 working Australians aged 50 and over (the baby boomer category) were asked about their opinions of the "simpler ...