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Investors swarm to Asian hedge funds

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2008
The Asian hedge funds industry continues to expand exponentially as investors flock to pour more than $12.4 billion into the market last year. New data by global hedge fund research house, Hedge Fund Research (HFR), show assets in the Asian hedge industry ...

Investing in BRIC, food, feed and fuel

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2008
Goldman Sachs JBWere (GSJBW) yesterday launched the Keystone Funds - Series II, paving the way for investors looking to sink their teeth into the firm's latest international investment opportunities. The Keystone II Funds offer investors the choice ...

Marsupials and the money market

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2008
US-Aust interest rate differentials are now at a four year and almost all time high after this morning's US rate rise, putting even more pressure on central banks around the world to follow suit irrespective of local fundamentals. The US rate drop to ...

Text ANZ for your account balance

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2008
ANZ has seized the crown of being the first bank in Australia to offer customers a text-based mobile phone banking service. ANZ will be the first of the big four lending institutions to offer text-based banking facilities through its TXT Banking system. ...

Member protection costs will hurt: AUSfund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2008
Super fund managers should consider placing inactive members into eligible rollover funds to reduce member protection costs, according to AUSfund. Warren Fawcett, manager of the Eligible Rollover Fund (ERF) at AUSfund, said member protection costs would ...

Industry funds target HNW

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2008
Industry Fund Financial Planning (IFFP) is set to provide its high net worth clients an extended financial planning service covering a range of products including direct equities and margin lending. According to David Haynes general manager at IFFP ...

UBS international shares derated

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2008
Research house Morningstar has downgraded UBS International Shares Fund to a "hold" after the European investment bank pulled its International Shares team back to London and reviewed its strategy. Morningstar said UBS' changes were disconcerting and ...

Lonsec advice pays off: Mercer

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2008
A series of Mercer multi-manager funds have been upgraded from 'recommended' to 'highly recommended' by Lonsec after the Mercer team went back to the drawing board to adopt some of the researcher's feedback. Mercer's Income Plus, Growth Plus, Shares ...

Bank downgraded in $8.2b scam

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2008
One of Europe's biggest banks, France's Societe Generale (SG), is left fighting for its reputation following $8.2 billion in losses from fraudulent dealings, a crisis which won't help its wealth management arm already under pressure in the current markets. ...

Oil sours economic rally

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2008
A recently released PricewaterhouseCoopers survey reveals that senior executives have replaced terrorism with risk of energy supply as a primary concern in 2008. Leading oil-importing economies that share these concerns meet today in the Swiss resort ...