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Financial planning

MLC has launched a new absolute return multi-manager product, designed to deliver a target 5.5 per cent real return over a 20 year time period....

Financial planning

Equity Trustees active switch prompts ‘hold’ ratings

A decision by fund incubator Equity Trustees to take a more active management approach has prompted research house Standard and Poor’s (S&P) to give four of its funds an ...

Financial planning

Looking further a field

Hungarian banks, chewable tobacco and other exotics are part of the stuff of global stock stories that excite these specialist managers....

Editorial

Peter Gunning: Model portfolios need continual development

Russell Investment Group chief investment officer - Asia Pacific Peter Gunning subscribes to the view that for model portfolios to be successful they need constant mainte...

Editorial

Alternative assets are no fad

The investment and planning world seems to be dividing into two camps with respect to “alternative” investment strategies and assets (hedge funds, managed futures, commod...

People & Products

Select makes alternative appointment

Select Asset Management has appointed Sam Armstrong, co-founder of Quay Partners, considered Australia’s first private equity fund of funds group, as a consultant to its ...

Funds management

Domestic equities looking over-valued: Russell

Domestic equities may have driven double digit superannuation returns over the past two years but investment managers are becoming increasingly concerned that they have b...

Funds management

Vanguard moves into global property

Vanguard Investments Australia has launched two new international properties securities index funds aimed primarily at risk reduction rather than return enhancement....

Funds management

(20-Jan-2005): Other boutiques on the move

Ausbil Dexia: Although Ausbil Dexia is not new to the boutique scene, having first pushed its way into the Australian market in 1997, a number of research analysts predic...

Editorial

(2 December, 2004) Investors grow wary of portfolio churners

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Funds management

ING goes global with listed property

Growing demand from Australian investors for global property exposure has prompted ING Investment Management to launch a locally domiciled global listed property fund....

Financial planning

Conflict disclosure at top companies found wanting

A troupe of public sector and industry superannuation funds have demanded Australia’s biggest companies more clearly disclose how they make sure their directors do not fu...

Editorial

Hedge funds: the missing piece of your portfolio?

A great investor once said: “Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.” Of course, it’s hard to imagine that there is much that Warren Buffet doesn’t understand abou...

Editorial

Investors need to be aware of stock concentration implications

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Editorial

Equity Outlook - What’s driving super in 2005

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