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Saddle up the greenback

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2007
... over a large variety of products such as capital equipment or fabrics to produce export goods. According to Austrade research, four out of five Australian businesses will still export and invest despite the Australian dollar's current strength. Their ...

Green paper bags top IFSA/Deloitte award

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2007
... Hare, equities dealer at Goldman Sachs JBWere Asset Management, has won the IFSA/Deloitte Future Leaders Award for his research paper on the implications of climate change on the investment industry. Each of the 13 candidates needed to be under the age ...

Advisers lead margin lending push

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2007
... margin lending on wrap, this makes life easy for advisers to keep track of everything," he said. Mark Johnston, head of research house Investment Trends, agreed that planners led the way, saying, "The real growth engine for margin lending has actually ...

Battle for advisers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2007
After extensive market research, St. George-owned Securitor and the Commonwealth Bank have announced new strategies to strengthen their grip on Australia's burgeoning financial planning industry. The financial advisory dealer arm of Asgard Wealth Solutions ...

Australian managers clock $650bn

... the listing of Platinum. Take those two factors out and the sector's growth was a mere nine per cent in 2006, when the research was undertaken. Watson Wyatt also reported that 2006 was the year of boutique funds and foreign investment managers. "The ...

Super dodges sub-prime correction

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2007
The up-and-down market since June might have shaved 1.6 per net off 12 month super returns but over the more important three and five year results it's hardly made a dent, reveals SelectingSuper in their latest super fund performance tables for August. ...

Schroders appoints new equities specialist

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2007
... with Fidelity Investments in both London and more recently Sydney, where he was most recently national account manager - research. Trusler will work closely with the Australian equities team, headed by Martin Conlon, to support the continued development ...

Dollar for dollar

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2007
... led by global miner BHP Billiton, which rose $1.35 to $45.85. William Rhodes, the chief investment strategist of market research firm, Rhodes Analytics, told The New York Times, "The market believes that the crisis is over" "Whatever problems emerged ...

Generation fund gets three-stars

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2007
... impressive team of investment professionals with proven track records based on core values and a fundamental approach to research. Generation's philosophy includes sustainable investment principles that are moulded around the belief that economic, health ...

DIY investors all cashed up

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2007
Self managed super fund (SMSF) investors may not have a crystal ball on hand but a new survey found that many of them sold out of property and equities well before the July/August market correction. A joint study of more than 2,100 SMSFs back in May ...