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Avoiding the black swan

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2009
... gain big over the long term, said a fund manager who survived the '87 and '08 crash. Defying the notion that "high conviction" investing is the best way to ride out bad markets, Robert Garvy, the US-based chairman of Enhanced Investment Technologies ...

Mercer MM gets Lonsec tick

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2009
... Recommended" rating in 2009 from research house Lonsec. The 'Highly Recommended' rating is only granted where Lonsec "has high conviction that the fund or product can achieve its objectives and, if applicable, outperform peers over an appropriate investment ...

Court convicts unlicensed Westpoint planner

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2009
... to the charge of providing financial advice with an Australian financial services licence (AFSL). As a result of the conviction, Rowntree is disqualified from managing corporations for five years. Companies including Solutions One Finance Group and the ...

Macq Funds adds two Aus eq analysts

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2009
... be working closely with the portfolio managers and oversee the fundamental research for Macquarie Funds Group's High Conviction, Alpha Plus and Small Companies portfolios. Meanwhile, James Miller is joining Macquarie after completing his Masters of Applied ...

Perennial and Hyperion sign UN PRI

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2009
... Samway was then encouraged by Gifford to become a signatory and the rest, as they say, is history. "It's about having conviction on doing what's right by our investors and investments," said Samway. "In the end we believe companies who have regard for ...

Martin Currie rakes $500m and growing

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2009
... won mandates because of the track record of its flagship product, the global alpha strategy. The strategy is a high-conviction portfolio with 30 to 45 stocks with a view of outperforming its index plus an extra four to five per cent. The product did ...

Tassie adviser banned

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 26 FEB 2009
... making false statements under oath during examination by ASIC in 2007. Moore was then banned in August on the ground the conviction in 2007 was one of fraud. He has applied to the appeals tribunal to have the decision reviewed but the Administrative ...

End 'set and forget' strategy: van Eyk

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2009
... report that recommended financial planners assess their fixed income exposure and, separately, their exposure to high conviction equity funds. On a separate note, Douglas said the global economic downturn could cause more stability within fund manager ...

Confidence yardstick rises

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2009
A monthly index that measures investor confidence in key sharemarkets rose for the first time in six months, with US institutional investors the most bullish about the performance of equities. The findings came from the State Street Investor Confidence ...

Obama: he's the man

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2009
So it was, so it shall be. The odds - the Dow fell in 12 out of the past 16 US Presidential Inaugurations - have prevailed. Now it's 13 out of 17. The Dow fell by 4.1 per cent and the S&P 500 dropped by 5.3 per cent as Barack Obama is confirmed as the ...