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Magellan Global tops overseas shares manager list

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2009
In a market that fell by as much as 50 per cent last year, Magellan Global bucked the trend by posting a 1.3 per cent loss, pushing it to the top of the league tables of overseas shares managers for 2008. As a fund manager that has only been around ...

VFMC unveils 2009 strategies

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2008
... another opportunity to put on a stractical trade... [so] we've closed our overweight exposure and taken some money off the table. Meanwhile the future of VFMC's investments banks a lot on plain vanilla derivatives to drive returns and improve portfolio ...

Thank you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2008
Wall Street celebrates Thanksgiving Day today - a 400-year tradition celebrated by Americans commemorating the pilgrims' gratitude for a bountiful harvest. Given the way the global economies are shaping up, Thanksgiving 2008 offers only patchy harvests. ...

Move for APRA fund level data gathers pace

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2008
... their risk and asset structures. "APRA does not propose to rank funds based upon risk calculations. With a return based table, however, it would seem sensible to include relevant risk measures." In case the publication of data items by APRA contravenes ...

All together now

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2008
It is just fitting that the world leaders from the Group of 20 nations decided to meet on 15 November 2008 to hatch their battle plans for ending the global financial crisis. For on this very same day in 1920, the League of Nations also held its first ...

Thumbs up for high conviction: van Eyk

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2008
High conviction fund managers look set to reap the rewards of a sluggish Aussie equities market, according to new research by van Eyk. Soaring fee levels have generally discouraged and disappointed investors in the high conviction space, compared to ...

Depression talk ill-informed and ignores history

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2008
... overnight. "There's been a very decisive action by all the governments to take active risk - to take systemic risk - off the table," he said. Swanson said that even if the current government incentives don't seem to be working fast enough, history shows ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2008
... said. "Compounding that is (that) we've had a couple of good, strong days and people are happy to take some money off the table," he said. "Coming from our offshore office out of Chicago, they see with the US election... just (achieving) an outcome is ...

Mortgage funds' phantom lifeline

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2008
The Rudd government's plan to shore up confidence in mortgage funds is a political master stroke because while it sounds terrific, it commits the government to nothing, will take months to have any impact and won't put dollars on the tables of retirees ...

MLC locks premium rates

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2008
MLC is locking its insurance level premium rates for the next five years and refreshing its product disclosure statements in its latest endeavour to draw fresh clients. MLC confirmed at its Insurance Forum today that the guarantee applies to new clients ...