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Knife falls

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2008
Anyone else caught the falling knife? Lower earnings forecasts quickly ended Wall Street's optimism over Santa Obama's promise of a 'single biggest investment' since the 1950s. Like I said in yesterday's commentary, for now this is simply rhetoric. ...

Santa Obama

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2008
'Tis the season to be jolly. Christmas has arrived early for equity investors. Or has it? Stock markets around the world rallied between 5 and 8 per cent yesterday and overnight, punctuated by the Dow's peeping above the 9,000 mark in intra-day trade ...

Calls to cut super contribs fails to get traction

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
Simplistically rejecting the idea of temporarily cutting super contributions misses the big opportunity - putting superannuation into the economic frontline and making it part of our monetary policy heavy artillery. A group of economists lead by Nick ...

Super funds reject calls to cut super contrib

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
A group of economists lead by Nick Gruen, principal of the Lateral Economics consultancy, have written to the Prime Minister proposing that employer super contributions be cut from 9 to 6 per cent with the money transferring to employees as take-home ...

Green funds to benefit from new govt policies

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2008

AvSuper unlikely to follow govt fund mergers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2008
AvSuper has sought to clarify the fund is not a government super fund after receiving phone calls from members regarding the government's move to merge three government super funds to form a single trustee board. This follows a government announcement ...

Fidelity Europe fund 'on hold'

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2008
Standard & Poor's has revised its rating of the Fidelity Europe fund from 'four stars' to 'on hold' after key portfolio manager Trygve Toraasen left the firm. As a result of Toraasen's departure, European Small Companies fund portfolio manager, Fabio ...

FMs back a winner 50pc of the time

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2008
Only half the investment decisions equity fund managers make add value, Inalytics research found. According to research across 215 long only equity portfolios, a 'good' fund manager generates a 51 per cent 'hit-rate', which is one per cent better than ...

Dow Jones launches Islamic ASEAN index

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2008
Dow Jones Indexes has launched the Dow Jones Islamic Market (DJIM) ASEAN Index - the first of its kind that represents the performance of Shari'ah-compliant companies in six of the 10 member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). ...

Linear launches enhanced MA

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2008
Linear Financial has launched its version of the managed account that can invest across a range of asset classes at a low cost. The Melbourne based firm launched the Linear Managed Account (LMA) after the firm released a separately managed account (SMA) ...