THERE was a time when the words “hedge fund” would cause a severe twitch and perhaps a raising of the eyebrows of most advisers, and certainly among clients.
DAVID Shirlaw heads the research and technical services team at Macquarie Funds Management. In that capacity he often creates tools for advisers to use in their business.
THERE are few clearer thinkers about the Perth property market and its associated risks, returns and nuances than Gavin Hegney of Hegney Property Valuations.
ASK anyone who was involved in the technology sector of the market back in April of 2000 and they usually develop a glazed look when discussing the “Tech Wreck”.
HOW often have you heard investors and fund managers talking about hedging their currency exposure and wondered what in God’s name they were talking about?
IN March of this year, BT Lifetime Super-Employer plan achieved an important milestone – it reached the $1 billion in funds under administration. The fund had been relaunched in 1998.
THE cut by the Reserve Bank of Australia to the cash rate of 0.5 per cent has taken a few analysts by surprise.Some economists have suggested that the RBA has gone too far with the size of the cut.
ALL we have heard in the last few weeks is the gnashing of teeth and general wailing as the little Aussie battler has plumbed new depths on each trading day.
SUCCESSFUL international trade requires strategy, RSM Bird Cameron’s international client services director, Neil Hough, has told a company export seminar.
THERE seems to be a trend among chief economists to call the turning of the equities market. The latest to do this is David Hudson, of Merrill Lynch Investment Managers.
WHEN you start an article as follows “If there is one thing the markets have taught us it is that investment fundamentals can’t always explain price movements” you know that you are going to get the attention of most analysts.
WHEN the whole of the investment world starts to talk about the more daunting and likely prospect of a recession here in Australia, it causes everyone to acknowledge the possibility of that occurring. So in times of this uncertainty we turn to our est...
