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Instos switch $100bn mandates

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2010
... context, she said many funds conducted portfolio reviews last year either as part of their normal annual review or because of the GFC. Overall, search activity in Australia doubled to 120 in 2009 but the amount of assets placed halved from US$15.2 billion ...

US financials a big play: Bennelong SGI

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 15 APR 2010
The global financial sector may be a shadow of its former self after the GFC but it is still a $9.1 trillion (US$8.5 trillion) market full of stocks ripe for the plucking, said fund manager Bennelong SGI Global Equities. Visiting Australia this month ...

Time to grow: Securitor

MICHELLE BALTAZAR IS A MEDIA GUEST OF THIS YEAR'S SECURITOR ANNUAL CONFERENCE.  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 APR 2010
... return to growing their business. "The last two years was tough. You spent plenty of time talking with your clients [about the GFC]... it's now time to think about your businesses and the growth of your businesses into the future." He highlighted where ...

HFA to re-open flagship fund

HFA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2010
... expectations and combined with the strong positive investment performance, we are confident the fund will be back to its pre-GFC terms much earlier than originally anticipated," said Oscar Martinis, joint managing director at HFA Asset Management. The ...

Enviable problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 APR 2010
... commentaries on how soon we'll run out of workers to dig... Australia would again be importing foreign workers like it did before the GFC hit, or bosses could pay higher wages to retain staff and attract additional employees. Or the RBA could raise interest ...

African bourse on the rise

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2010
... Kshs. 75.76 million a week - a phenomenal increase of 1,836 per cent. As a stockmarket, however, Nairobi was not immune to the GFC. Its annual equity turnover plummeted from Kshs. 97 billion in 2008 to only Kshs. 38 billion last year - a 60 per cent ...

How high and how long

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2010
... 125 bps more than the 3.0 per cent when the RBA brought the economy into the "emergency" ward to fend off contagion from the GFC. Financial markets were almost evenly split as to whether the RBA would or wouldn't leading up to yesterday's meeting. But ...

Epoch focus on free cash flow pays dividends

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2010
... its benchmark rose 10 per cent. In the medium two-year and three-year periods, however, or the periods coinciding with the GFC, the fund outperformed the same benchmark by at least 3 per cent. Priest was one of the few global fund managers who thought ...

Click rates rise at ESI Super website

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2010
... members. In particular, the fund is ramping up its dedicated member portal called Member Online Access. "It's clear that the GFC, growing financial literacy and potential changes to superannuation from the Cooper Review, is fueling a greater demand for ...

Asgard spends big on platform upgrades

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAR 2010
... 5,300 financial advisers use the Asgard platforms. "This review has resulted in an entirely new direction for Asgard. The GFC allowed us to pause and look at some re-organisation and renovation," he said. As a result, Asgard is moving from three standalone ...