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New ETF player targets niche assets

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JAN 2011
... will allow exposure to the US dollar... and will allow trading on the stock exchange to take exposure to the US dollar versus the Australian dollar," he said. Corbett said there is still a lack of product choice in the Australian ETF market, and it is ...

Movers and shakers of 2010

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 17 DEC 2010
... boutique funds can be to 'key man risk', while QSuper's decision to shift $10 billion into State Street ratcheted the active versus passive debate up a notch or two. And with regulatory reforms still a work in progress, and a number deals still to be ...

Hooray it's Oprah day

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 DEC 2010
... year Australia's tourism sector is expecting a $9 billion deficit, being the difference between expenditure on outbound versus inbound tourism. It follows the now infamous $180 million "where the bloody hell are you" advertising campaign that has since ...

Aberdeen mounts case for active fixed income investing

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2010
While the active versus passive debate usually centers around stocks, one of the country's largest fixed interest managers is keen to have the same argument around bonds. In a new paper, Abedeen's head of Australian Fixed Income, Victor Rodriguez, argues ...

Invesco makes the case for global REITs

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 12 NOV 2010
... will start to see a decline, and under normal market conditions we will start to see the benefits," he said. In the direct versus listed property debate, he said investors need to consider whether stability of returns or liquidity was more important ...

Factions will stay: AMP, AustralianSuper

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 12 NOV 2010
... not-for-profit funds have one stakeholder - the members - will have a huge impact on how they view the industry should operate, versus their retail funds which often have shareholders as well as investors' interests to consider. "So long as industry ...

Get on board super reforms: Shorten

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 1 NOV 2010
... avoid the infighting. "Let's take the suffocating politics out of super... The Monty Python factions of industry funds versus retail, accountants versus planners, self managed super funds versus the world... the bickering, the industry navel gazing and ...

Fox elected AFA president

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 OCT 2010
... We're not going to win every battle, but we're going to win the important ones." Besides, Fox said it's not about an "us versus them" battle. "Although it's a battleground, I don't think it's us versus someone else; the battle is with ourselves. The ...

Pigs are bacon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 OCT 2010
... source - Bloomberg - reported that, "The dollar strengthened against 13 of 16 major counterparts, erasing earlier losses versus the euro to advance 0.3 percent to $1.3921 against the shared currency. The dollar strengthened 0.3 percent to 81.35 yen after ...

CFS GAM makes a case for raising govt debt

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 21 OCT 2010
... banks looking to diversify their reserves, are often permitted only to hold government securities, so there is no public versus private choice for their investments. His views on 'crowding out' are supported by a recent Treasury department working paper ...