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KRudd comeback biting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 FEB 2012
... preliminary composite PMI showed that Europe's services and manufacturing activity "unexpectedly" dropped to 49.7 in February versus 50.4 in the previous month and predictions for a rise to 50.5. I placed unexpected in quotation marks because, for the ...

Dam Aussie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2012
... expected. Initial Jobless Claims: -13K to 348K in week ended 11 Feb. Plus 10K expected. Housing Starts: +1.5% to 699K in Jan versus expectations of 675K expected. And oh, there was a US stat that came in lower than expected but... this was also good. ...

Instos face debate on EM strategy

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2012
Institutional investors are facing divided opinion on the merit of an integrated versus a siloed asset strategy to emerging market exposure. While return potentials in emerging markets are high, the volatility of those returns and greater downside risk ...

Planners double allocation to term deposits

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012
... better outlook. While, "financial planners now expect the value of the All Ordinaries to increase by just 8% over 2012, versus 10% for 2011 and 14% for 2010," according to Peker, planners remain more positive on market expectations than investors, whose ...

Fund managers rate Aust equities

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012
... illusory. "At this point, it is very difficult to determine how much of the earnings malaise can be attributed to cyclical versus structural issues." Tyndall said it will be orientating its investments to stocks where cyclical issues are greater than ...

US planners want retirement product simplicity

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2012
... retirement. The survey also found that while planners employ systematic withdrawal, time-based segmentation, essential-versus-discretionary income approach and less formal strategies, results showed that systematic withdrawal was the most effective in ...

Aus can deal with another GFC: Shorten

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2012
... immune from difficulty. "High-income country growth is now expected to come in at 1.4 percent in and 2 percent in 2013, versus a June forecast of 2.7 and 2.6 percent for 2012 and 2013 respectively," said the report. But Assistant Treasurer Bill Shorten ...

UBS: Diversify to prevent fatigue

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2011
... lower rates, the recent US data profile has been promising, corporate balance sheets broadly remain in healthy condition versus previous cycles." Persistent volatility has seen investors "fatigued" and while Boubouras believes there are solid investment ...

Quantum launches US residential fund

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 1 DEC 2011
... of the economic and demographic make-up of the top 25 US cities. It considered population growth, jobs growth, state GDP versus national GDP, housing affordability, vacancy rates, and infrastructure, and through a process of elimination, chose a handful ...

Bennelong awarded 'recommended' rating by Lonsec.

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 24 NOV 2011
... group average (Excess Return -0.2% pa). More recent performance has likewise been solid, with an Excess Return of 1.9% (versus a peer average of 0.3%)," said the Lonsec report. The Bennelong Australian Equities Fund is managed by Bennelong Australian ...