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Fiducian launches India fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 18 OCT 2007
... said the fund's investments are weighted towards infrastructure, power and banking with 13 per cent invested in metals and basic engineering, 12 per cent in construction and 11 per cent in technology. The mid cap stock bias of the fund is designed to ...

Back to basics: Vanguard

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2007
Investors may have had a great run over the last twenty-five years, but the 20-year anniversary of 'Black Tuesday' reinforced the need to look back and learn the lessons of the last two decades, according to visiting Vanguard chairman and chief executive ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2007
The Australian sharemarket continued in the red at noon following a poor performance on Wall Street as US stocks were hammered by record high oil prices and a weak earnings report from Citigroup. At 1215 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index had shed ...

The many faces of income

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2007
Retirees should diversify their income portfolios because income-type products are not like they used to be. Bruce Murphy, head of distribution at Macquarie Funds Management, urged investors to go back to the basics of income investing and start questioning ...

Marketwrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 AUG 2007
The Australian sharemarket is higher at noon following a rebound in the US market overnight. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index had gained 68.6 points to 6168.9 and the all ordinaries added 67.4 points to 6168.8. On the Sydney Futures Exchange ...

Here, kitty kitty

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 30 AUG 2007
... Turner, executive editor of UK personal news site, Finance Markets, "a combination of falling supply and rising demand for basic food produce is set to bring serious inflationary pressures to central banks later this year." Drought and flooding across ...

Retirement gets more expensive: ASFA

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 AUG 2007
... prices. The survey defined a modest retirement lifestyle as "Better than the Age Pension, but still only able to afford fairly basic activities," while a 'comfortable retirement lifestyle' meant being able to get involved in "a broad range of leisure ...

ANZ eyes ING and maybe AMP

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2007
... how to take ANZ to a fifth or a quarter of the home loan market. And own up to the need to take out a lot more costs in basic services. There's no way productivity levels are high enough or the pace of change fast enough. Generally, in banking, management ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2007
The Australian share market had slightly improved at noon after a lacklustre opening this morning. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index had climbed 3.6 points to 5936.2 and the All Ordinaries gained 3.4 points to 5929.9. On the Sydney Futures ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2007
The Australian share market remained sharply lower at noon, after being dragged down by a US market still racked with fear about the fall out in the US sub-prime mortgage sector. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index shed 165.4 points, or 2.68 ...