tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9764429244379819252023-07-17T21:54:09.504-07:00Investment & Financeabe ma6 - anakmatlesenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14267755917075009170noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-976442924437981925.post-9960904671115075242013-10-22T07:45:00.001-07:002013-10-22T07:45:11.847-07:00Crescent Wealth’s Australian Islamic Equity Fund rated world’s best<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #333333; line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><i>Sydney, October </i></b><b><i>17 2013</i></b> – Islamic fund manager Crescent Wealth’s Crescent Australian Equity Fund has recorded returns more than double the Australian Stock Exchange’s ASX 300 benchmark in the September quarter, ranking it as the world’s best performing Islamic equities fund in the period, according to Bloomberg. The fund was also the best performing Australian equities fund for the September quarter as rated by Morningstar.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Crescent Australian Equity Fund (CAEF), returned 23.0% for the three months to September 30, significantly outperforming the 10.3% gain on the ASX 300 over the same period. Issam Eid, Crescent’s portfolio manager, said the fund’s exposure to small caps during the quarter and individual stock picking, particularly within the resources, energy and mining services sectors, were the largest contributors to the high return.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“We believed that the market was holding down the miners and that a number of stocks were significantly undervalued and we have seen something of a fight back over the past few months,” Mr Eid said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“At the same time, we took the view that valuations of large caps and defensive stocks on the Australian exchange looked expensive and we positioned our portfolio accordingly. Our fund is also precluded from investing in banks which proved advantageous as those stocks came off somewhat during the period.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In the mining, resources and energy sectors over the past six months, Crescent Wealth’s equities fund has invested in stocks in the gold, iron ore and mining services sectors (Independence Group NL, Oceana Gold Corp, Mount Gibson Iron Ltd, WDS Ltd and Titan Energy Services Ltd.) In the residential property and information technology sectors, the fund invested in companies including in GBST Holdings (GBT) and On the House (OTH).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“Looking forward over the next six to 12 months, we see continued upside to the CAEF portfolio and expect our holdings in natural resources and mining (BHP Billiton Ltd and Rio Tinto Ltd), IT (Runge Pincock Minarco Ltd and ASG Group Ltd), and consumer discretionaries (Harvey Norman Holdings Ltd, Vita Group Ltd and McPherson’s Ltd) to perform well,” Mr Eid said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Crescent Australian Equity Fund, launched in late 2011, is Australia’s first licensed Islamic managed fund. It is open to all investors, including private and institutional. Through its Board of Islamic scholars, Crescent Wealth applies a number of filters to ensure all investments held in the fund are in accordance with Islamic principles. Industries that are prohibited include alcohol, tobacco, weapons, pork, conventional financial services, gaming and media.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Crescent Wealth’s Diversified Property Fund also performed strongly over the last two quarters returning 3.38% over the past quarter, outperforming the Morningstar benchmark by 2.0%. Portfolio Manager for the Crescent Diversified Property Fund, Andrew Smith, said there have been a number of standout performers for the fund over the last quarter, including Stockland and Charter Hall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Crescent Wealth’s Managing Director, Talal Yassine, said he was pleased about recent performance as it would highlight the potential for Islamic compliant financial products in the Australian market.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">“There is enormous potential for Islamic funds in Australia mirroring the significant expansion we have seen in similar funds overseas. Crescent Wealth is proud to be the leading Australian pioneer in Islamic investing and will continue to work hard to deliver innovative products for investors,” Mr Yassine said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">To find out more about Crescent Wealth, please visit their website</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span><a href="http://www.crescentwealth.com.au/" style="border: 0px; color: #36812f; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">www.crescentwealth.com.au</a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">or call 1300 926 626 (within Australia)</span></div>
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The highly-anticipated Facebook IPO was plagued with problems, potentially costing thousands of dollars to many small investors and further damaging Wall Street's reputation on Main Street. A Wall Street Journal report.</div>
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In snaring the most coveted investment-banking assignment of the year, <a class="companyRollover link11unvisited" href="http://online.wsj.com/public/quotes/main.html?type=djn&symbol=MS" style="color: #093d72; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">Morgan Stanley</a>'s <span data-change="0.37" data-changepercent="2.656137832017229" data-company-name="Morgan Stanley" data-country="US" data-datetime="Jun. 15, 2012 4:02 PM" data-iso="$" data-offset="-4" data-pc="13.930" data-price="14.3" data-ticker-name="MS" data-ticker="MS" data-volume="28782240.00" data-widget="dj.ticker" id="0.26865891297347844"><a class="tkrQuote tkrPositive" href="http://online.wsj.com/public/quotes/main.html?type=djn&symbol=MS" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #eafaea; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 153, 0); border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 153, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 153, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 153, 0); border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; color: #009900; display: inline-block; font-size: 0.85em; line-height: 1.3em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="tkrName">MS</span> <span class="tkrChange">+2.66%</span></a></span> Michael Grimes insisted to a senior <a class="companyRollover link11unvisited" href="http://online.wsj.com/public/quotes/main.html?type=djn&symbol=FB" style="color: #093d72; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial;">Facebook</a> Inc.<span data-change="1.724" data-changepercent="6.0940261576528805" data-company-name="Facebook Inc. Cl A" data-country="US" data-datetime="Jun. 15, 2012 4:00 PM" data-iso="$" data-offset="-4" data-pc="28.290" data-price="30.014" data-ticker-name="FB" data-ticker="FB" data-volume="43563739.00" data-widget="dj.ticker" id="0.7202952583320439"><a class="tkrQuote tkrPositive" href="http://online.wsj.com/public/quotes/main.html?type=djn&symbol=FB" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: #eafaea; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 153, 0); border-bottom-left-radius: 3px; border-bottom-right-radius: 3px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(0, 153, 0); border-left-style: solid; border-left-width: 1px; border-right-color: rgb(0, 153, 0); border-right-style: solid; border-right-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(0, 153, 0); border-top-left-radius: 3px; border-top-right-radius: 3px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; color: #009900; display: inline-block; font-size: 0.85em; line-height: 1.3em; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span class="tkrName">FB</span> <span class="tkrChange">+6.09%</span></a></span> executive that he be the "single driver" of the company's initial public offering, adding that if the deal soured, it would be his "throat to choke."</div>
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Mr. Grimes's audacious, successful pitch to minimize input from other underwriters put Morgan Stanley in a position to exert unusual control over the IPO and to scoop up a bigger share of its fees. But it also turned the veteran Silicon Valley investment banker and his firm into targets for criticism when Facebook's IPO swiftly turned bad for many investors.</div>
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In the wake of the botched offering—Facebook has shed $22 billion in market value since the May 18 deal—much of the focus has been on the chaotic first day of trading, which was marred by technical problems on the Nasdaq Stock Market. But interviews with Wall Street bankers, brokers, investors and Silicon Valley executives reveal that Mr. Grimes, his firm and Facebook made several decisions in the weeks leading up to the offering that contributed to the rocky ride.</div>
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Uploaded by RussiaToday on 28 Jan 2012 - How fast will Russia's equity markets get back to normal life after the fall in December? What can pump them back up? What about investment risk during Russia's presidential campaign? And which sectors could improve the health of the Russian economy? OtM is joined by Ben Aris, Simon Fentham-Fletcher, Artem Arkhipov and David Cranield.</div>
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Uploaded by cctvnewschannel on 27 Jan 2012 - U.S ratings agency Fitch has cut the credit ratings of Italy, Spain and three other euro zone nations as the region's debt crisis deepened. Fitch cut Italy by two notches to A- from A+, while Spain was lowered to A from AA-. Belgium, Slovenia and Cyprus were also downgraded.
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Meanwhile, Fitch put all five nations' credit outlooks as "negative". However, investors were still optimistic over the Greek debt swap deal with its private creditors and the Euro rose against the US dollar for a fifth straight day.</div>
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Uploaded by worldinformant on 23 Aug 2010 - The Short and Simple Story of the Credit Crisis.By Jonathan Jarvis | Crisisofcredit.com </div>
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The goal of giving form to a complex situation like the credit crisis is to quickly supply the essence of the situation to those unfamiliar and uninitiated. This project was completed as part of my thesis work in the Media Design Program, a graduate studio at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.<br /><br /></div>
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Published on 29 Sep 2011 by CBS - Struggling homeowners who could benefit the most from the all-time low interest rates often don't have the equity in their homes to qualify. Cynthia Bowers reports on the cruel paradox.
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Published on 29 Sep 2011 by CBS - The average fee for non-customer use of an ATM is now a record $2.40 and the average fee for a bounced check is now nearly $31 -- also a record. Anthony Mason reports on why the fees are so high.
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Published on 29 Sep 2011 by CBS - CBS News business and economics correspondent Rebecca Jarvis answers viewer questions about personal finance, including the best ways to pay off student loans and credit card debt.
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Uploaded by nsotd4 on Sep 26, 2011 - In a scary and painfully frank interview a freaked out BBC interviewer is visibly shaken when market trader Alessio Rastani predicts that the "Market is Toast." Apparently there is nothing Euro governments can do.
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Uploaded by TheRealNews on Aug 21, 2011 - Bill Black: Technical traders love volatility; Obama raising big money on Wall St.
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Aug 12, 2011 - Following days of volatile activity, European markets rose today after France, Italy, Spain and Belgium imposed a temporary ban on the short-selling of financial shares.
Investors who participate in short-selling borrow shares from other investors and sell them at current market prices. When the value of those shares drop, they buy them back at the new, lower price and return the shares to their original owners. Their profit is the difference between the price they sold the shares and the price they bought them back, minus lender fees. In essence, the goal of short-selling is to profit from the falling price of stock.
Market analyst Aly-Khan Satchu explains to Al Jazeera's Tony Harris why short-selling can cause market problems.
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</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Hosted by Carol Yip, a financial coach and also author of financial books, the programme offers tips on how to manage your money wisely in easy to follow steps. Where needed workbooks and financial sheets can be downloaded free for your use.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Money Chat contains three segments per episode - a short sketch of different spending scenarios, a how-to segment to help solve your personal financial book-keeping woes, and also chats with selected celebrity guests to see how they manage their money!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">For Segment 2 of Episode 1, there's a link to a financial budget planner which is downloadable free to you!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Pop writes about the intersection of our lives and economics at <a href="http://www.popeconomics.com/">Pop Economics</a>. There, you can find biweekly posts on everything from how your behavior affects your personal finance decisions to what the Fed’s most recent move means to you — not to mention some killer pop art. He recently wrote: <a href="http://www.popeconomics.com/2010/02/16/resistance-is-futile-why-buy-and-hold-beats-value-investing/" target="none">Resistance is futile: Why buy-and-hold beats value investing</a>.</i></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">The fact of the matter is: <b>Most of us <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_cost_averaging">dollar-cost average</a> when we invest because we have to.</b> We get paid biweekly or monthly, and we invest our savings as soon as we receive it. We don’t have gigantic piles of money sitting around that we must choose to invest in a lump or over time.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">But because dollar-cost averaging is personal finance 101, you’re going to find arguments as to why it’s the “best” way to invest <i>anyway</i> all over the place.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">The refrain goes something like this: Let’s say that rather than put all your money into a mutual fund at once, you invest a set amount, say $1,000 per month, over time. When the fund is at $100 per share, you’ll buy 10 shares. When it’s at $150, you’ll only buy 7 or so shares. That way, you force yourself to buy more shares when they’re cheap and fewer when they’re expensive! You’ll see that argument at <a href="http://www.statefarm.com/mutual/sc/invest_know/dollarcst.asp" target="none">lots</a> of reputable <a href="http://www.axa-equitable.com/investing/what-is-dollar-cost-averaging.html" target="none">sites</a>.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>The problem with that explanation is that it suggests if you <i>did</i> have the choice between investing over time or all at once, you should invest over time. That doesn’t make sense,</b> and here’s why.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.consumerismcommentary.com/pod//" target="_blank"><img align="right" alt="Dollar-cost averaging" class="attachment wp-att-8530 alignright" height="320" src="http://cloud.consumerismcommentary.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/dca-800-e1269177722170.jpg" width="320" /></a><b>1. Dollar-cost averaging works in reverse when you retire anyway.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Just as you might put $1,000 per month into stocks when you’re in the wealth accumulation stage of your life, you’re going to withdraw, say, $10,000 per month from your portfolio when you retire. And yes, <b>that means you’ll be selling <i>more</i> shares when they’re cheap and <i>fewer</i> when they’re expensive — just the opposite of the supposed benefits dollar-cost averaging gave you when you started!</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>2. When you rebalance your assets as you age, it’s unrealistic to keep the strategy up.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Most of us invest a lot in stocks when we’re young and less in stocks (and more in bonds) as we age. Conventional wisdom holds that you should have, say, 90% in stocks and 10% in bonds when you’re in your 20s, but closer to 40% in stocks near retirement. But how do you get from one allocation to the other?</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dollar-cost averaging would seemingly dictate that you should slowly re-balance your portfolio as you age every month. In other words, when you hit, say, age 30, you’d sell a bit of your stock portfolio and buy a little bit of bonds each month as you got older. Aside from falling into the trap described in point one, how many of us could keep that up? And if we could, the transactional costs associated with the process, such as commissions from trading ETFs, would eat into our savings.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>3. If you <i>do</i> have a lump-sum to invest, and choose to dollar-cost average, you’re throwing your asset allocation off, big time.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Pretend you’re in your 30s, have $100,000 saved so far in a 80/20 stock/bond mix, and come into a $100,000 inheritance. Hearing of the merits of the dollar-cost average approach, you choose to trickle the money into the stock market over time.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Well guess what? On day one, your asset allocation would be 40% stocks, 10% bonds, and 50% <i>cash.</i> Not exactly the aggressive asset allocation you intended, right? <b>Just because you mentally put the $100,000 inheritance into a pile of money separate from your retirement savings doesn’t make it actually so.</b></span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">And if you believe the stock market generally rises over long periods of time. The short-term volatility you’re trying to smooth out doesn’t matter anyway. The best time to invest will always be ASAP.</span></div><h3 style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">Something dollar-cost averaging is good at</span></h3><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">At the end of the day, the completely rational individual would choose to make a lump-sum investment instead of to dollar-cost average. But exactly zero of us are completely rational. So there’s one big reason I can see someone choosing the DCA route, despite the arguments against.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">In two words: “Loss aversion.” <b>Humans fear losses more than they love gains.</b> This tendency is <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_aversion">well-documented</a> by economists. So if you invested all $100,000 in a lump sum and the market dropped 5% the next day, you’d leave with an emotional scar. But alternately, if you began a DCA program and the market <i>rocketed</i> 5% the next day, you wouldn’t be nearly as sad.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: small;">That’s not rational — but it is the way we think. If you can’t get over that hump, you might decide that the cost of dollar-cost averaging is worth your emotional well-being. Just don’t pretend it’s making you money.</span></div><div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; text-align: justify;"><br />
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