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Astarra opens to retail investors

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2008
... executive, said previously investors could only access the firm's diversified funds via its master trust. "In the highly volatile bear market conditions experienced these past 12 months the three Astarra Diversified Funds have consistently delivered ...

Plan Protect buys boutique firm

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2008
AXA financial planning representative, Plan Protect purchased Sydney CBD based financial planning practice, Bearsden Holdings, boosting its funds under advice to more than $200 million. Bearsden Holdings comprises of two financial planners including ...

Bennelong's new arm champions boutiques

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2008
... launches the fund's new Australian Equities division. While most fund managers hunker down awaiting the passing of today's bear market, Bennelong Funds Management is taking the bull by its horns with the launch of a new arm, Bennelong Australian Equity ...

Market Movers (10 July)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2008
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) will release June Labour Force data at 11:30 AM today. Labour market surveys released earlier this week point to continuing weakness on the jobs front. The ANZ job ads survey released last Monday showed the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2008
... the Nasdaq composite index fell 59.55, or 2.60 per cent, to 2,234.89. The pullback left both the Dow and S&P 500 back in bear market territory, with both indexes having logged declines of more than 20 per cent since their October highs. Bond prices edged ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2008
... added 76 points, or 1.49 per cent, to 5170. NEW YORK - The Dow rose on Thursday, a day after the blue-chip average entered a bear market, on relief payrolls data was not as weak as some had feared and with another record oil price boosting energy shares. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2008
... 117.6 points, or 2.26 per cent, to 5,094.0. NEW YORK -The Dow rose on Thursday, a day after the blue-chip average entered a bear market, on relief payrolls data was not as weak as some had feared and with another record oil price boosting energy shares. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2008
... at 5094.8, while the broader All Ordinaries lost 49.5 points, or 0.94 per cent, to 5211.6. NEW YORK - The Dow sank into a bear market on Wednesday as US stocks fell on growing concerns about the toll that record oil prices are taking on the economy and ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2008
... Ordinaries lost 72.1 points, or 1.33 per cent, to 5,349.4. NEW YORK - US stocks fell on Friday, pushing the Dow to the brink of a bear market, hounded by concerns that record oil prices and the seemingly endless credit crisis will further damage the ...

New multi-managers challenge incumbents: S&P

... multi-manager products now offered often means that investors and their advisers are examining products side by side that bear no comparison to one another." "Each fund has a different target return, volatility, timeframe, and market beta level, while ...