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Fund managers shift away from cash

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2008
Australian fund managers' appetite for cash investments fell from 50 per cent to 13 per cent in six months, according to a survey. The Russell Investments Investment Manager Outlook (IMO) survey found the number of Australian fund managers that are ...

Quant and quals brave the bear

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2008
Quantitative versus qualitative managers - who's been battered worse amid the global financial crisis? According to two industry experts, both have had their share of joy and pain surviving the second half of 2008. Rohan Walsh, partner and fund manager ...

You earn, I spend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2008
... the other Party spending the hard earned savings they accumulated during the good times is too much for the Opposition to bear. C'est la vie. Politically, Rudd is in danger of becoming a one-termer if the global financial crisis is allowed to ravage ...

Affordable advice: yes we can

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2008
Can financial planning firms roll out affordable advice at a delivery cost of just $300? According to Q Invest, yes they can. Q Invest, which has around $2 billion in funds under advice, said that it's more than possible for financial planning firms ...

Three rich beggars

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2008
'There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying into Washington D.C. and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands.' This was US Democratic representative Gary Ackerman's comments to the CEO's of the big three US carmakers ...

Platforms should adopt insto approach

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2008
... responding to short-term trends, said Bruce Murphy executive director, distribution, Macquarie Funds Group. Murphy said the bear market would likely lead to a change in platform behaviour - one that is based on an institutional approach to investing. ...

Don't worry, be happy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2008
... Much the same way as this expectations bias becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy during a bull market, so it does when the bear comes out of hibernation. And this is what we are seeing now. Governor Stevens is correct. The current economic and financial ...

Consultum pumps $1m into tech

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2008
... is investing more than $1 million into the development of its software program to help give advisers the edge in today's bear market. The decision to pump dollars into its software program stems from the firm's focus to better service its new and existing ...

G20 to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2008
... overnight lead given yesterday's near 6 per cent slump in the S&P/ASX 200 index. But is this the beginning of the end of the bear market in equities? The short answer is, not yet. The global recession must play out. The economic and financial systems ...

The good oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2008
... bakers took to the streets to demand cheaper oil. The same was true in many Asian countries. Investors hit by the equity bear market shifted their money into what appeared back then as an unquenchable thirst for oil. Prices of the black gold went into ...