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Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2007
... Reserve Bank of Australia's monetary policy statement is due and the AOFM bond tender announcement is due at midday. On the equities front, Fairfax Media, United Group, Bendigo Bank, and LinQ release first half results, while Ballarat Goldfields NL holds ...

Zenith gives Centro the thumbs up

NICK OLIVER  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2007
... Smythe, director of Zenith, said, "Zenith supports the argument for global investing in property much like it does in equities," said Smythe. "The manager's experience and expertise is unquestionable and in Zenith's opinion is a competitive advantage ...

Global pension fund assets hit A$30 trillion

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2007
... pension assets, the survey revealed. Australian and Irish pension funds reported the highest increase during 2006. Overall, equities make up 60 per cent of assets, up from 52 per cent in 1996. But allocation to other assets, especially alternatives ...

Pengana adds two to team

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2007
... relations. She has also spent time with Glebe Asset Management and spent two years as a senior property analyst with Macquarie Equities.

China booming to a bubble?

NICK OLIVER  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 FEB 2007
... opening up in January alone. The Chinese Banking Regulation Commission (CBRC) is so concerned about the rising demand for equities that it has stopped banks from lending money for the purposes of stock market investment and has asked banks to recall ...

JPMorgan banks on alternative energy returns

NICK OLIVER  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 FEB 2007
... aimed at retail investors with a minimum investment of $10,000. It has received a recommended rating from independent equities research firm Aegis and gives exposure to the DAXglobalA(R) Alternative Energy Index, which has returned gains of over 230 ...

QIC cuts WestLB Mellon

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 FEB 2007
QIC has revised the manager line up for its Implemented Australian Equities Fund, terminating WestLB Mellon's long-short mandate. QIC said the review was part of a strategy to consolidate the number of managers to increase the individual allocations ...

BT setting a new course in alternatives

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 6 FEB 2007
... BT increased its alternatives allocation from 5 per cent to 9 per cent, the 4 per cent increase funded from Australian equities, Australian fixed interest and cash allocations. Brentnall explained that the AQR allocation is comprised of a pure active ...

QIC moves AQR mandate to long-short

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2007
... Constraint Global Equity Fund. AQR's Released Constraint Global Equity Fund is a 140 per cent long and 40 per cent short equities portfolio, and QIC said moving the mandate out of a long-only strategy into an unconstrained allocation expands AQR's ability ...

Everything old is new again, now: Schroders

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2007
Investors would do well to get back to the basics of investing, according to Schroders, with head of Australian equities, Martin Conlon, arguing the focus on 'new' asset classes and an obsession with headline data and forecasting has led some to forget ...