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BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2008
People don't need to read the funny pages anymore to get their daily amusement fix. They only have to read the way the media interpret the daily movements in the stockmarket. Wall Street rallied almost 11 per cent last night. Here is Bloomberg's interpretation ...

CSAM opens commodity fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2008
Credit Suisse Asset Management is to offer its enhanced commodity fund to the retail and institutional market as a way for investors to gain returns that are uncorrelated to equity markets. The Credit Suisse Enhanced Commodity Fund was launched roughly ...

Instos pour $370m into Apostle fund

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2008
A number of public sector and industry super funds, multi managers and master trusts have pumped a combined $370 million into a specialist Apostle fund that aims to capitalise on the undervalued US senior bank loans market. The Apostle Loomis Sayles ...

Saved by the Fed

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2008
Troubled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac will be reborn in a four-pillar strategy put forward by the US government - a move that brought fast relief to the credit markets. After more than a month of deliberations, the Treasury, the Federal ...

Saving Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2008
The financial stability of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac would have to be protected at all costs, as their falls would cause cataclysmic effects not just in the US but the rest of the world, including Australia. Speaking at the 2008 Russell Australasian ...

LMW Invest secures property veterans

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2008
Listed property valuation firm LandMark White is setting up a new investment management arm that boasts industry heavyweights Linden Toll, president of ADPIA, and ex-Investa fund manager Michael Este at its helm. LandMark White has traditionally been ...

Frontier's $97bn FUA in safe hands

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2008
Investment consultants like to keep their performance numbers strictly for clients' eyes only but Frontier, which advises on $97 billion of superannuation assets, broke convention when it publicly revealed its results this year - the first time it's ...

Covered short-selling unmasked

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2008
While 'naked' short-selling has been the center of news headlines, one investment expert urges the industry to look at the misuse of 'covered' short-selling and why the rules have to be changed. Speaking at the IFSA conference last week, David Bryant ...

Commodities bull run won't wane: GMI

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2008
Investors have traditionally lumped commodities investing into the growth strategy basket - but maturity in the sector has seen the sector take on both growth and income yielding sheens. John Robinson, chairman of the $417 million ASX listed Global ...

Fee for service planners on the rise

A sub-segment of financial planners expect revenue from pure 'fee for service' models to increase to almost a quarter of their total revenue in three years, a survey of more than 1,100 planners has found. The inaugural Investment Trends Planner Business ...