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Shariah-compliant hedge funds hit the spot

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2009
... outperform their traditional hedge fund counterparts this year, predicts Aureliano Gentilini, global head of hedge fund research at Thomson Reuters Lipper. Gentilini said that Shariah-compliant hedge funds stand to benefit from emerging trends in the ...

AMP forays into SMAs

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2009
One of the country's largest financial planning groups, AMP, has launched its own separately managed accounts product following advisor feedback. Paul Sainsbury, AMP product manufacturing director, said the launch of the product, the AMP Personalised ...

Consolidation is not the answer

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2009
Super funds with double the average number of trustees produced better returns than their peers according to new research, suggesting calls to downsize trustee boards could be counter-productive. The global financial crisis and its impact on super fund ...

Aust Ethical hires small cap analyst

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2009
Australian Ethical appointed former Macquarie Securities equities researcher, David Macri as equities analyst. Macri joins the team from Macquarie Securities and has also worked at Credit Suisse Asset Management, Mellon HR&IS and Mercer Consulting. ...

Right on target: Vanguard

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 13 JAN 2009
Investors can avoid the pitfalls of emotion-driven investing through target-date funds, according to research from Vanguard. The Vanguard Centre for Retirement Research in the US published a report in November last year that surveyed the portfolios ...

Planners turn to cash and TD funds

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2009
... and super platform, navigator, which administers around $19.6 billion of funds on behalf of financial planners. Aviva's research reinforces previously published data on the flight to cash. In the 12 months to March 2008, term deposits accounted for only ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2008
... 3,530 on a volume of 13,248 contracts. Very low trading volumes were exaggerating any share price movements, Ben Potter, research analyst at IG Markets said. "People are happy to sit on the sidelines," Mr Potter said. As well, investor worries that Republicans ...

Divide super for members: Rainmaker

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2008
... super solution to ensure members are in the appropriate fund, according to Alex Dunnin, Rainmaker Information director of research. Speaking at the Thomson Reuters Superannuation Governance Forum yesterday, Dunnin said competition between retail super ...

Aviva covers risky jobs

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2008
... that stay at home parents require insurance," said Natalie Eckersall, general manager of wealth protection products. Research indicates that the cost of outsourcing home duties, normally performed by the non-working spouse, can add up to over $45,000 ...

Morgan Stanley launches Aus Eq fund

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2008
... inception in 2005, will co-manage the fund with Mark Skocic who joined MSIM's Aussie equities team from Morgan Stanley Equity Research. Together, they currently manage more than $500 million in Australia equities on behalf of various institutions. The ...