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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2015
... quantitative easing in the eurozone, with Frankfurt topping 12,000 points for the first time. Germany's leading stock market index smashed through the psychologically important level, one week after the European Central Bank began its 1.14-trillion-euro ...

Focus on yield is distorting asset prices: PM Capital

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2015
Australian investors' strong focus on yield is distorting asset prices and increasing the risk of falling into a "yield trap," PM Capital head of distribution Rob Thompson said. The focus on yield is compromising the risk/reward proposition and introducing ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2014
... confidence rose by four points to 58, according to the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index. Germany's DAX 30 rose 1.6 per cent as investor confidence in Europe's biggest economy jumped back into positive territory in ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2014
... confidence rose by four points to 58, according to the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index. Germany's DAX 30 rose 1.6 per cent as investor confidence in Europe's biggest economy jumped back into positive territory in ...

Beware high correlations: AQR

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... do; hedge funds appear to have high correlations to traditional assets and little added value versus a wider equity market index. This, he explained, is because there are many managers who have been attracted to the hedge fund industry by the opportunity ...

Moving on up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2014
... The PSE index has soared by 16.8%this year to date. This compares with gains of 1.6% and 1.7% for the MSCI Emerging market index and the MSCI World index, respectively. The inflow of funds into the Philippine stock market had, no doubt, been boosted ...

Wanted: Money managers that are investors not product makers

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2014
... investors. In Australia this is reflected in the 96% correlation super fund returns have with the S&P/ASX securities market index, leading to a frustration that has culminated in indexing increase its market share to an all-time high. "We're investors ...

J.P. Morgan launches two wholesale funds

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2014
... fund uses a "concentrated, high-conviction, value-orientated" strategy, and aims to outperform the MSCI Emerging Market Index. David Hallifax, head of Australia Funds, J.P. Morgan Asset Management, said, "Our expansion into the wholesale market and the ...

Bottoms up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2014
... is overvalued, that the S&P 500 is overbought, that US economic growth remains sub-par - the benchmark US equity market index continues to record break. This is because the US central bank's balance sheet continues to expand despite the US$10 billion ...

Don't lump Asia Pacific in with EM fall

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2013
... performance of emerging economies it would be wrong to tar them all with the same brush," Hepner said. The MSCI Emerging Market Index has underperformed its developed world counter-part by some 20 percentage points in 2013, with developing world currency ...