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Investment

Linear launches enhanced MA

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2008
Linear Financial has launched its version of the managed account that can invest across a range of asset classes at a low cost.

CalPERS grows green strategies

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 NOV 2008
If you can't stop the financial crisis, then stop global warming and make money while doing it - much like how the US' biggest pension fund CalPERS has reduced 13.3 per cent of its energy use in 2007 and boosted its bottom line.

Dragon still on the rise

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2008
The global financial crisis may have dealt severe blows to many Western economies, but an expert on China predicts the communist country's investment opportunities remain robust despite the forecasted international slowdown.

No more short-selling: IML

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 25 NOV 2008
One of the country's long-established value fund manager Anton Tagliaferro has urged the Federal Government to re-instate the shorting ban because short-selling threatens the ability of listed companies to raise much-needed equity capital in the next ...

BTIM remodels AQR mandate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2008
BT Investment Management (BTIM) has altered its international equities mandate with AQR Capital Management, dropping the fund manager's currency and country selection strategies.

IOOF and AWM sign $88b merger

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2008
IOOF Holdings has approached Australian Wealth Management with a merger proposal that will see both companies unite to become a $88 billion fund management giant.

Term deposit with a twist

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2008
Macquarie Funds Management hopes to cater to investors in two minds about the stockmarket through a structured product that is 90 per cent in term deposits and 10 per cent invested in Australian shares.

Innovators, imitators and idiots

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2008
Yale Endowment wannabes trying to emulate their heroes with high exposures to timber products pushed up prices to 30 times pre-tax cash flow, setting them up for big falls in 2009.

Investors gain precious metal alternative

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2008
Platinum, palladium and silver are all at investor's fingertips after London based exchange traded commodities (ETC) provider, ETF Securities launched four precious metal ETCs on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX).

Quattro fund on ice

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2008
Quattro Asset Management has shelved plans to launch its capital protected structured product Vault 08 and shifted its focus to buying long short equity strategies.