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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2008
... session after Federal Reserve officials cast doubt on the outlook for more interest rate cuts, with the Nasdaq closing in bear market territory. The Dow Jones industrial average ended down 65.03 points at 12,200.1. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index was ...

More bulls than bears

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2008
More than three quarters of Australian investment managers expect high corporate earnings growth in Australia, a far more optimistic view than their US and European counterparts, according to an AXA Rosenberg survey. AXA Rosenberg surveyed 196 investment ...

High conviction champions

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2008
Opportunistic and high conviction funds passed the 'bear market test' with flying colours, based on recent performance data. Critics have argued that opportunistic and high conviction funds - designed to perform well during a market fallout - are so ...

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 ...

Murder on super

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2008
... and if there's appropriate allocation to each sector, then really what we're saying to them is that they have to grin and bear it," he said.

China's investor confidence crisis

MARK STORY  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2008
Following a decade-long bear market that led to a huge sell-off in the 1990s, China's investors have experienced spectacular stock gains since the wave of partial privatisations two years ago. But a dramatic sell-down that shaved 10 per cent off share ...

Quadrant members say no to email

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2008
... of advancing technology some members still prefer more traditional communication and like most organizations, we must be bear this in mind when communicating with members," he said. "Super members place an enormous amount of trust in their super funds ...

Fundies find a loophole in money laundering law

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2007
On the eve of the implementation of the most significant provision of the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act, the regulator Austrac has conceded that there is a big loophole in the law. Austrac issued a statement yesterday, saying ...

US-Aust rates spread widens to 250 bps

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2007
... longer controls oil, but hey they can control the next best thing: money. Which is why the Wall Street Journal has reported Bear Stearns saying, "The Fed continues to couch its policy actions in terms of their impact on economic growth rather than admit ...

First Quadrant launches fund for all seasons

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2007
US-based investment manager First Quadrant has launched Global Macro Trust, which aims to generate returns for institutional investors regardless of market direction. Max Darnell, chief investment officer at First Quadrant, said the global macro return ...