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Little fish and the big picture

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2007
The past five weeks has given some investors a classic lesson in the difficulty of timing markets. Expectations of more bad news saw the bears in a sell-off before being forced to buy back in as shares rebounded - a turn around that has enabled shares ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 SEP 2007
... Treasurer said the US decision to cut interest rates underscored the risk in international financial markets, but one had to bear in mind that Australia had a well-regulated financial system. "We are not immune from international developments - of course ...

Stop chasing artificial yields: PIR

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2007
... artificially inflate their returns using financial engineering and other innovations. But that strategy won't stack up in a bear market and gives investors a false picture of the property fund. "This can be potentially misleading to investors in terms ...

Equities' erratic flight path

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2007
... redemptions to the tune of 1.6 billion euros ($2.67billion) from three investment funds, has since reopened all three. Like the two Bear Stearns funds earlier, these were exposed to derivatives, underpinned by mortgage-backed securities that were based ...

Pengana launches global volatility fund

A new Pengana fund bears two industry buzzwords, 'global' and 'volatile'. After last night's S&P awards, it can now add "award-winning" to its name too. Having won the S&P's Innovative Product of the Year award, the Pengana Global Volatility has also ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2007
... mortgage lenders fell on persisting credit worries and after Goldman Sachs slashed its earnings forecast on Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns and Morgan Stanley. The Dow Jones industrial average was down 56.74 points at 13,322.13 and the Standard & Poor's ...

Perpetual strategy bears fruit

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2007
Listed investment manager Perpetual is reaping the rewards of a strategy implemented four years ago after its latest results show that more than 50 per cent of revenue growth over the period came from non-Australian equity sources and nearly 20 per ...

Bear claws and database gremlins

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2007
Panicked bear-phobic investors and a dodgy database sent our market half way to a crash just before 2pm yesterday in one of its biggest losses in seven years. Not officially a Bear market, yesterday's mauling still managed to erase all of the gains ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2007
The Australian share market is expected to continue clawing back ground when it opens today, despite a neutral lead from Wall Street and lower base metal prices. At 0829 AEST, the September Share Price Index was up 10 points at 5710 on the Sydney futures ...

Battling the bears

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 14 AUG 2007
Investors' appetite for risk has been spoiled by fears of a global credit crunch, however the share market yesterday saw savvy investors snapping up banking and construction sector bargains. US markets finished up essentially where they started after ...