S&P Assigns Four-Star ‘NEW’ Rating to AXA Emerging Markets Fund

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Standard & Poor’s Fund Services today assigned its four-star ‘NEW’ rating to the AXA Emerging Markets Fund. The fund is a long-only active equity strategy that was launched on July

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Lessons for US shares today from Aust in the early 1990s

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Key points Shares normally go through a tough patch in the second year following a bear market low. This can reflect worries about monetary policy tightening or worries about a

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Stock market Bubbles

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Market Bubbles While there is a lot of evidence that stock markets are simply unpredictable, there are times when prices get a long way out of kilter with any sense

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What the world economy has going for it

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When Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke in July appeared for his twice-yearly appearance before the US Congress he said the outlook for the US economy is “unusually uncertain”. Only a

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Lonsec releases its 2010 Australian Property Securities Funds Sector Review

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Lonsec’s 2010 review of the Australian Property Securities sector included 19 funds, of which only one attained Lonsec’s top rating, Highly Recommended. This was the Vanguard Property Securities Index Fund.

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Personal Investment Policy Statements

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It is standard practice for professional fund managers to prepare an Investment Policy Statement (IPS) to guide investment decisions and to force them to be clear about exactly what the

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Pre-open pricing on the ASX

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Managing an orderly market and ensuring that share prices are not able to be manipulated by participants seeking an unfair advantage over others are important functions of the Australian Securities

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Active vs Passive funds – the debate continues…

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Overview The debate over active versus passive management is not a new one. In the 1960s the world saw Eugene Fama develop the theory of the efficient market hypothesis and

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