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S&P Indices expands fixed income

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2012
S&P Indices has expanded its S&P/ASX fixed income series and introduced intraday pricing to the Australian market. The government inflation-linked bond index carries capital inflation linked bonds with principal adjusted by trailing Australian CPI each ...

Hedge funds outperform: Research

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2012
Research commissioned by KPMG International and AIMA on the global hedge fund industry has found that funds have significantly outperformed equities, bonds and commodities over the past 17 years. The study, conducted by the Centre For Hedge Fund Research ...

Dark pools shine as ASX trade size falls

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 23 APR 2012
A bumper first quarter for buy-side dark pool provider Liquidnet has been helped by the declining average trade size on the ASX, which is forcing block trades away from lit markets. "The ASX average trade size for the first quarter is around $7000," ...

Alphinity backs growth in energy sector

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2012
Alphinity Investment Management expects Australia will experience 4% steel growth in 2012 but picks the energy sector as where the real growth can be found. "We are coming to the close of the super growth cycle for steel although there is a short term ...

Robeco hits Aus shores

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2012
Netherlands-based asset management firm, Robeco, has expanded into the Australian institutional market, headed up by former Australian head of institutional business at Aberdeen Asset Management, Stephen Dennis. With a focus on Australia's growing domestic ...

Alphington wins corporate super mandate

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2012
Alphington Private Wealth is the corporate super adviser for SMEC Super Fund, after being awarded a $45 million mandate. Under the mandate, Alphington will work with SMEC Super Fund staff and management to deliver wealth management, consulting and financial ...

Govt bonds reach $237bn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 2 APR 2012
... place at 69%. Australia's net foreign debt is meanwhile estimated by the Reserve Bank of Australia at $855 billion. Since the ALP government was elected in December 2007 it has increased 34%, compared to it's 134% increase during the Howard government's ...

ASX trials small cap research scheme

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAR 2012
The ASX has awarded funding to a 12-month $1 million equity research scheme to produce independent research on listed small and medium-caps. Targeted at the 92% of ASX-listed entities (around 1,800) with a market capitalisation less than $1 bn, the ...

Good not great

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 FEB 2012
... FTSE-100 47.4 69.0 I leave you to form your own conclusions. Perhaps now with the leadership challenge out of the way, the ALP government can find its way, get on with its governing duties and provide a less uncertain direction for Australian equitie ...

No more fear - maybe

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 FEB 2012
... the farce (whoops, Freudian slip), the past behind and get on with the business of governing. Yeah, yeah, sure, sure. The ALP will be one happy family starting today. All those vicious, vitriolic, very public statements would simply wash away - forgotten ...