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NAB boutique launches retail fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2008
National Australia Bank Group's boutique fund manager Northward Capital, has launched the division's first retail fund, Northward Capital Australian Equity Trust. The fund adopts a neutral investment strategy so that it can outperform in different market ...

AMP Capital Core Infrastructure hits $100m

The market may have taken a beating but that hasn't stopped investors from opening their wallets to AMP's infrastructure fund, which drew more than $100 million of inflows in less than six months. On the surface, it's easy to presume AMP Capital Core ...

Earnings power peaks from age 35

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2008
Income for males peaks from age 35 while for women it peaks ten years earlier, reveals the ABS. The mean weekly earnings of employees in their main job was unsurprisingly higher for men than for women in every age group with the greatest difference ...

Managed accounts expands asset mix

Managed accounts are no longer limited to providing a platform for domestic and international equities. MA providers will soon include term deposits, fixed interest products, structured products and agribusiness. Speaking at the Financial Standard forum ...

Angels targeting SMEs

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2008
Sub-prime pushed private equity out of the news but when it all settles down and the focus returns to building businesses, one sector that will get more attention is angel investing. Angel investors are like venture capital investors except they get ...

Alternatives cause valuation headaches

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2008
Super fund legalsuper has taken extra steps when reviewing its alternative assets portfolio to address concerns that members could risk losing their savings from mispricing of illiquid assets. The super fund now do monthly valuations of their alternative ...

Bad markets, good advice

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2008
Financial planners may be the surrogate bearer of bad news as markets continue to shed their value but one dealer group has stepped up to say there's no better time to talk to clients than when the going is tough. Robert Thomas, head of research and ...

Finance jobs fall 8 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2008
Slowing market conditions are finally flowing through to the finance sector with advertised job vacancies falling 8 per cent in over a one month period. Grant Montgomery, managing director of E.L Consult who conducted the Executive Demand Index, said ...

US Fed back in the lead

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2008
The US Fed, taking its cues from successful school principals and sports coaches, is now leading the game rather than following and it's no surprise that economies and markets are fast falling back into line. Pointing the way is some strategic commentary ...

JV eases Opes Prime woes

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2008
MDS Financial Group and Box Red have purchased the operating systems and client base of online brokering service, Trader Dealer, severing ties between the online stockbroker and Opes Prime. The purchase enables Trader Dealer to provide "execution only ...