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Bear claws and database gremlins

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2007
... earlier in the year. The market was already weak, after the S&P 500 closed 1.4 per cent down and the S&P was also down versus the beginning of 2007. The Sydney Futures Exchange only created more panic when it closed from around 12:45pm to 2pm with technical ...

Clean, green profit machines

... Corporate Monitor reported that the market cap-weighted return of the sector was 60.5 per cent in the year to June 2007 versus the S&P/ASX 300 benchmark's 29.2 per cent over the same period. Stretch the time frame to five years and clean tech stocks ...

People to power advice of the future

... for practices to make sure that you are not underselling yourselves." Encore's Peaty agreed, saying, "It's not about fees versus commission, it's about value." However, advisers still have a long way to go when it comes to communication, according to ...

Economic round-up: Greenspan versus the poet

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2007
While China's Premier Wen Jiabao relies on the economic advice of a poet, America's former Federal Reserve Chairman, Alan Greenspan, protests he has less influence than he's given credit for with his economic observations. Trying to turn down the heat ...

Australia trailing towards the future

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2007
... Australia's superannuation sector to overtake the big banks in ten years' time, with $5 trillion in assets under management, versus $4.8 trillion for the banks. Meanwhile, Perpetual's Gerard Doherty said he wanted to see any future government up the ...

Risk awareness up, costs down: Aon

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2007
... insurance market, with more Australian organisations actively involved in selling than their New Zealand counterparts (54 versus 20 per cent) The number of respondents regularly checking the financial security of their insurers also went up from 70 per ...

New blood to shake up CFS Aussie equities

... languished in the past twelve months. For example, the CFS Australian Share Fund gained 15.31 per cent in the year to April versus its benchmark the S&P/ASX 300 Accumulation Index which gained a higher 22.5 per cent. In the three years to April, the ...

Share ownership down but trading activity up: ASX

... November. Among the research highlights were that retail share investors were doing an average of eight trades per year versus six three years ago. The average trading parcel rose to $14,200 from $10,650 back in 2003. However, share ownership fell from ...

Intangible fund a winning recipe: Macquarie

... benchmark by 3 per cent net of fees for the past three years. Return on equity in the year to June 2006 was 49.56 per cent versus the benchmark's 20.29 per cent. "The beauty of intangible assets is that they are so much harder to replicate. You can't ...

Public equity under pressure

... multiple reach as high as 49 times in the last year compared to a low of 16 times and Adelaide Bank on more than 18 times versus 16 times and Bank of Queensland to 22 times from 18 times, respectively. But what could return the power back to public companies? ...