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Citigroup revamps hedge fund platform

... facilitates multiple currencies and multiple strategies. For example, it will support practically all asset classes namely equities, derivatives, swaps, fixed income and over-the-counter (OTC) structured products. The launch of the new platform comes ...

Investors rush for capital protected loans

... Margin Lending at Macquarie said that the take up of their capital protected products such as the Fusion Funds and Geared Equities Investment (GEI) Plus has reflected this trend. "We've certainly reached more than double our target [on those funds] and ...

China miracle more political than economic: Fidelity Summit

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 AUG 2006
... it even riskier than first imagined. The question of China was posed by Mercer's Tony Cole at the Fidelity Australian Equities Summit. The world has never seen this type of growth before and so we may not have a proper sense of what the underlying risks ...

Future Fund keeps capital deployment close to its chest

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 1 AUG 2006
... question: do we follow local companies we know, or do we go direct and buy ourselves a nice portfolio of Indian and Chinese equities?" he said. The weight of money argument was a repetitive theme for the panel, with Russell Investment Management's Australia ...

Asgard makes shares easy through E*Trade

... spent the last six months researching what financial planners and investors wanted to help make it easy to invest in equities on the platform. They said they want equities to have similar administration and reporting treatment as managed funds, so we ...

Vanguard says volatility points to indexing

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUL 2006
... coming out of periods of strong growth," Bowerman said. But with retail investors often focused squarely on their next equities position, most Australians would do well to adopt the perception of an institutional investor. "Institutional investors spend ...

QIC hands global mandate to Altrinsic

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUL 2006
... boutique fully owned by employees and is a bottom up active value manager. Greg Liddell, QIC's head of international equities, said Altrinsic's success was built on a number of factors. "The firm's competitive advantage is a combination of the team's ...

Cash becomes king with inflation on the up

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUL 2006
... rate is 5.8 per cent, so you could argue that cash is more attractive than bonds right now." While Oliver forecasts that equities and non-residential property will still deliver better medium to long-term yields than cash, he said the present "volatile" ...

Leyland opens Melb office to meet IMA demand

KATE HAGE  |  MONDAY, 24 JUL 2006
... cent stockbroking 20 per cent IMA mix, to 60 per cent IMAs 40 per cent broking," he said. "If you want to own direct equities there are two ways. One is via a stockbroker, where you pay commissions and the benefit is that you get shares in your name. ...

Tollhurst Noall signs up for managed accounts

... and tax efficiencies," the group said. Davies said many current Tolhurst Noall clients who already have a mix of direct equities and managed funds can now benefit from the advantages of an SMA through the Managed Portfolio Service. The explosive growth ...