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Wilson HTM expands investment team

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012
... positions at JBWere and McIntosh Securities in New York and Hong Kong. Ivor Ries recently joined Wilson HTM as a senior research analyst. Prior to joining, Ries spent 10 years working as an equity analyst and 22 years working as a financial journalist ...

CSIRO questions Aus economy after the boom ends

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012
A CSIRO researcher has questioned where Australia's economic output will come from once the commodities boom ends. "We are a highly exposed market because three things that we make, make up 40% of our exports," said Dr Stefan Hajkowicz, principal scientist ...

Former Lonsec director charged with insider trading

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2012
Norman Graham, former managing director of stockbroking and research firm, Lonsec, has appeared in the Magistrates' Court of Victoria charged with 14 counts of insider trading, following an ASIC investigation. The Australian Securities & Investments ...

Emerging managers add twice the alpha

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2012
... manager hedge funds is roughly twice that of established manager hedge funds over the past 20 years, according to new research. This is despite large hedge funds attracting most of the inflows, said Peter Urbani, formerly chief investment officer at ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2012
... for just 10 minutes before falling again, and by noon was trading near its lows of the session, Geoff Saffer, head of research at Australian Stock Report, said. "The market has taken an absolute beating," he said. "You'd expect to see some stop losses ...

Lonsec changes index funds research process

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2012
Research house Lonsec has changed its research process for index funds and index-based Exchange Traded Funds and will now use separate criteria to assess actively managed funds. "This change is based on Lonsec's belief that index funds now have a critical ...

SuperStream levy unclear

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2012
... 2011-12." In addition to the $467 million ATO budgeted costs to be levied on APRA regulated funds, the FSC has conducted research which shows their members will pay a further $250 million to deliver SuperStream, including in directly related capital ...

Latest Financial Standard iPad edition available now

RACHEL DAVIS  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2012
... in the app through the 'Breaking News' section when connected to wireless Internet. For investment professionals, the research tables on super funds and managed funds performance data - supplied by Rainmaker Information and published in the print edition ...

Investors missing the eurozone silver lining

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012
... affording little provision for a potentially improving scenario," said Heather Arnold, executive vice president, director of research, Templeton Global Equity. "Templeton Global Equity Group's rigorous analytical process has identified what we believe ...

Aus investors over-reacting on Euro fears

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2012
... only in a sentiment and financial market sense," said David McDonald, Credit Suisse Private Banking head of strategy and research Australia. "When we get up and see a Spanish bank's gone broke, everyone thinks the world is ending when the direct impact ...