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Watch out for 130/30

130/30 or 'alpha extension' strategies will become much more widely used next year, according to Mercer Investment Consulting. Unlike traditional or "long-only" investing, a 130/30 portfolio permits the investment manager to introduce some "short" or ...

When a lift in unemployment is good news

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2007
... economy moving to full employment has big implications for economic policy and how we should read the macro indicators. In a major speech to the NSW Economic Society this week, Dr Steven Kennedy from the Commonwealth Treasury said while the most obvious ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2007
... to 1,486.67, based on preliminary closing numbers. LONDON - UK stocks ended higher, recovering from earlier losses, after major central banks including the US Federal Reserve announced steps to ease liquidity tensions. Led by oil plays and index heavyweight ...

Aussie investors jump on emerging markets iShares

... instead of through traditional means. "Individual investors, intermediaries and wholesale fund managers can invest in China's major companies, for example, for a management expenses and fees ratio (MEF) of only 0.74 per cent pa through our iShares FTSE/Xinhua ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2007
... big miners went backwards with with Rio Tinto dipping $4.06 to $142.44 and BHP Billiton slipping 83 cents to $43.37. The major banks declined, with Commonwealth Bank falling 77 cents to $60.01, National Australia Bank giving up 17 cents to $38.74, ANZ ...

US-Aust rates spread widens to 250 bps

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2007
... would spread from the financial to the real economy and since consumption holds up the economy and real estate wealth is a major plank holding up consumption spending. No surprise then that no one is ruling out further cuts. But what seems to get up ...

Singapore and ME fund swoop on UBS

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2007
... Oman however, it just reinforces the move by petro-dollar economies to diversify, with financial services being one of the major targets. Alex Dunnin with

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2007
... advanced on Monday as investors snapped up beaten-down financial shares on news of the latest injection of funds into a major global bank. Expectations of a Federal Reserve interest-rate cut this week also added to the positive mood. At 0812 AEDT, on ...

Industry and public fund members complain less: SCT

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2007
The Superannuation Complaints Tribunal (SCT) received 759 complaints concerning retail super funds last financial year, accounting for 60 per cent of total complaints, compared to industry and public funds at around 30 per cent. The 2006/07 annual SCT ...

CG not a priority for mid-caps

Listed companies in the mid-cap sector run the risk of being ignored by corporate governance-conscious institutional investors after a new report found that only two out of 150 mid-cap companies have adopted 'best practice' CG standards. The 2007 BDO ...