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Editorial

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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People & Products

Russell head leaves to get ‘hands on’ at Sunsuper

Russell Investment Group has lost the head of its investment consulting operation in Australian, David Hartley, who will move to private sector superannuation fund Sunsup...

Financial planning

Mothoneos departs van Eyk

Senior research analyst Dennis Mothoneos has left van Eyk Research after three years with the company to join investment advisory house, Strategic Capital Management....

Financial planning

Hedging your bets is all about style

Hedge funds are increasingly being used by planners, with inflows stable over the past 12 months due to the strength of returns from Australian equities....

Financial planning

Changing down a gear

Australian equities have become the star performers of many portfolios in the past 12 months, and every day the market gets stronger. But, like all good things, it has to...