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Investing without feeling

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2008
... recommends investors adopt a disciplined strategy when equity markets become volatile which includes effective stock research, trying not to pick share market changes and a properly diversified portfolio. "Investors should do the research to ensure emotion ...

New Asia Pac equities head for AMP Capital

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2008
... and manage three AMP Capital equities teams including the team that stock selects Australian equities using fundamental research, New Zealand equities and Asian equities. He will report to chief investment officer Mark O'Brien. With the establishment ...

DIY investors not happy

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2008
Investors are increasingly dissatisfied with the products of their DIY investment brokers, new research by Wealth Focus shows. Figures from the new DIY Investor Report found that investors were "relatively unhappy" with their main DIY investment broker ...

Listed cos fail compliance test

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2008
... major company announcement, such as a profit update or a takeover, rose by 40 per cent over four years, according to new research by governance research firm Regnan. The numbers were no better last year, where Regnan analysed 3,255 share trades by S&P/ASX ...

Optimix to use local Indian know-how

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2008
... a lot of hurdles to get to where we are so they're really two years behind," he said. "If I was to fly over there and research the market I might not be able to get in as many doors as someone who already has the contacts there. That makes a huge dif ...

GVI shifts retail weight to insto

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2008
... traditional yardsticks, such as dividends. The snag is that the fund is still in the process of getting ratings from research houses. "Ideally we want to have our ratings completed by 2009 fiscal year. We're already half way through the process with ...

Stagflation cross-winds

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2008
... economy is negatively impacting global commodities or food prices. According to Nick Orlic economic analyst with NabCapital research, the key reason why inflation is on the up, despite the downturn in the OECD developed economies, led by the USA, is ...

Australia dubbed the educational hub

Kaplan Professional, The Washington Post-owned group that bought Tribeca and Finsia's educational arm last year, has flagged plans to make Australia an "educational hub" in the Asia-Pacific region. While the name Kaplan is little known locally - up ...

Govt creates super advisory

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2008
... Clark-Murphy, head of accounting, finance and economics at Edith Cowan University and John Piggot, associate dean of research at the University of New South Wales. Nick Sherry, minister for superannuation and corporate law, said the committee provided ...

Super gap widens between haves and have-nots

... find out how much they are putting into their super against how much they need to have a comfortable retirement. The research confirmed the obvious: that a huge number of working Australians - 3.4 million to be exact - are still falling short on their ...