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Main Street versus Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2009
... work. It must have hedged its massive purchases of toxic assets with an equivalent amount of lucky charms? Main Street versus Wall Street Now that it has been revealed where US taxpayers' money handed down to AIG is being spent, Main Street is not happy ...

Developing Asia worst hit

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2009
... expanded much more rapidly. The value of financial assets to GDP rose to 370 per cent of GDP in developing Asia in 2007, versus 250 per cent in 2003. By contrast, the ratio only rose by 30 per cent in Latin America with the result that estimated losses ...

Gold will rally, bonds thrive: BlackRock

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2009
... be out first, well before the EU," said Hudson. As a result, BlackRock may soon implement a long position on the S&P500 versus the Eurostoxx. Other predictions include resources to underperform in 2009, which may see the firm short the Resources index ...

HSBC Premier business up 76 pc

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2009
... financial services business increased its customer base by more than 76 per cent but pre-tax profits halved to US$19 million versus $41 million in 2007. "We anticipate the 2009 will be a tough year for the Australian market...however, with a strong capital ...

MLC revamps global share strategy

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2009
... global share strategy portfolio. These fund managers have discretion over choice of capital allocation across developed versus emerging markets, regions, countries, industries and stocks. Paul Duncan, MLC Investment Management global shares portfolio ...

AFA hits back at fee-for-service report

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2009
... recent Rice Warner Actuaries report that highlighted Australians risk paying 13 times more for commission-based advice versus fee-for-service. Richard Klipin, chief executive of the association, critiqued the sample size of five case studies which were ...

IOOF quadruples platform reach after Skandia buy

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2009
... rose by a third last year. That is, around 31 per cent of planners stopped using a particular platform provider in 2008 versus only 23 per cent the year previously. Investment Trends research shows that advisers use an average of 3.3 platforms for their ...

Intech fixed interest tops IC survey

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2009
... conducted by Rainmaker and CPG Research and Advisory, has found that Intech returned 17.6 per cent in the year to December versus the IC average of 12.5 per cent. In the international fixed interest category (hedged), Intech also delivered 12.4 per cent ...

APRA fund level reporting proposals dangerous

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2009
... Causing alarm for IFSA and its membership are difficulties the wealth management industry has agreeing on what are growth versus defensive assets, which translates into philosophical differences between funds and market segments regarding how investment ...

Free cash flow wins mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 23 JAN 2009
... returns in good stead. Since its inception in May last year, the unhedged version of the fund reported a 6.28 per cent loss versus the S&P/Citigroup BMY World (ex-Australia) Index of 18.74 per cent. Across its global offering which was established three ...