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Household wealth breaks through $5 trillion

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2008
Household wealth in Australia is now estimated to be $5.1 trillion after jumping 12 per cent last year, reveals the latest analysis from Treasury. The figures are contained in a Treasury Roundup discussion paper by analysts Anthony Goldbloom and Andrew ...

Investing without feeling

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2008
AXA's chief investment officer Mark Dutton highlighted the US experience that shows why investor returns are chronically influenced by human emotions. Dutton said A US report analysed the returns of the Standard & Poor's 500 Index compared to the experience ...

Bridges takes over as Scobie departs

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2008
Peter Scobie has bid farewell to his position as head of fixed interest at Suncorp/Tyndall to take up the role of associate director - global fixed interest credit at QIC. Meanwhile ex-Tyndall head of fixed income and bonds, Roger Bridges, has moved ...

EMs too fast, too furious for sub-prime

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2008
Emerging markets are set to grow more than three times the rate of developed markets and will shrug off the sub-prime led liquidity crisis with ease, according to emerging markets wizard Mark Mobius. EMs investments expert Mobius from Templeton Asset ...

CalPERS pumps cash into fund-of-funds

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2008
US pension giant California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) has invested an extra $323.1 million last week for emerging managers. CalPERS has awarded $161.5 million each to emerging manager fund-of-funds manager Leading Edge Investment ...

GVI shifts retail weight to insto

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2008
Homegrown fund manager Global Value Investors (GVI) flags plans to offer its flagship retail fund to institutional clients. Established in February 2005, the GVI is seeking to launch its flagship Global Industrial Share Fund to institutional clients. ...

Macquarie buys Allegiance

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2008
Macquarie Bank's Funds Management Group (MFMG) has deepened its roots in the US funds management market by scooping up California-based fixed income fund manager, Allegiance Investment Management. Financial details of the transactions were not disclosed ...

Becton selects DSTi

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2008
ASX-listed Becton Property Group has announced that it will implement DST International's HiPortfolio Unit Pricing solution to its investment management division. The incorporation of the HiPortfolio Unit Pricing is expected to facilitate a more proactive ...

Ascalon treads global commodity path

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2008
While the performance of listed property and hedge funds falter in the wake of the US sub-prime disaster, fund managers such as Ascalon Capital Managers are steering their attention to the global commodity sector to maximise investor returns. The St.George ...

AFS ready for IPO

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2008
Australian Financial Services Group (AFS) has flagged plans to list on the stock exchange after meeting its business and profit objectives last year. "Our energies over the past four years have been devoted to consolidating AFS' position in the marketplace ...