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Active extension moves into Australia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 24 NOV 2006
... investing. Active extension investing is when a portfolio manager operates their fund according to a fixed ratio of long versus short investing and where they use leverage in the same proportion. While the strategy is new to Australia it is becoming ...

FPA should lead not follow: Bloch

... past 12 months such as the Westpoint debacle, conflicts of interest, ASIC shadow shopping and on the subject of commission versus fees. Bloch, appointed to the helm five months ago, said it has been a "baptism of fire" becoming FPA's new chief executive ...

Daily Economic Round Up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 NOV 2006
... hundred per cent over the last couple of decades and that within the top 50 companies it is now 70 times average earnings versus the 20 times multiple of twenty years ago. The annual increase of the lowest paid workers in the recent Fair Pay Commission ...

Schroders casts net outside MSCI World

... before the tech bust. "It goes back to the concept of active value. With the MSCI you're buying history's recent winners versus the future winners. Many of them are mega large cap stocks that did well over the past few years and what we suggest is that ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 31 OCT 2006
... farming can be seen from the great divergence in maintenance costs which for cotton farms are of the order of $243,000 versus a national average across all types of farms of around $28,000 per year. Around 92 per cent of establishments performed some ...

More countries sign up for REITs

... in favour of global property are even better. The S&P/Citigroup World Property Broad Market Index returned 31.5 per cent versus the MSCI World Index return of 17.4 per cent. Harvey predicted the UK and Germany would be the next investment hotspots for ...

You are how you spend, not your age

... factor, when you were born." By contrast, Honeywill and Byth's research looked at 194 variables which underpinned their NEOs versus Traditionals consumer segmentation. While Honeywill declined to disclose names, he said that a couple of major banks have ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2006
... cent more than brokers were offered when selling T2 shares. Local fund managers will be offered the stock at 0.3 per cent versus the 0.5 they were allowed when T2 was sold. A $20 million advertising campaign has begun to attract investors to the sale. ...

Men are better savers than women: Citibank

... likely to have a better lifestyle come retirement because they tend to save more and save earlier than women. The Mars versus Venus debate reared its ugly head once again at the latest Citibank Retirement Index survey, a comprehensive bi-annual study ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 25 SEP 2006
... that used for tertiary students. In Australia there are now about 150,000 tertiary students undertaking coursework masters versus the 50,000 enrolled in masters and doctoral degrees by research. At the University of Melbourne there are about 700 of the ...