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EM corp bonds better than US: CFSGAM

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013
Investors can get a better return on emerging markets corporate bonds than they can on US corporates with the same credit rating, according to Colonial First State Global Asset Management's Helene Williamson. Previously only deemed appropriate for speculators ...

New investment paradigm governed by science: Winton

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2012
Underscoring the investment path less traveled by London-based Winton Capital Management is a reliance on a cadre of in-house research brainiacs to unearth more reliable returns. Its flagship managed futures fund boasts a 120-man team comprising a mixture ...

Put up or shut up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2012
Pa-lease stop with these nudge, nudge, wink, wink already -- and ease up on the promises and pledges while you're at it. No, I speak not to you Virginia, but it is to Ben and Mario I direct my displeasure. I've been watching the markets for decades ...

Bond boom or bust?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2012
We've peered through the Hole and we saw something - we think. Now it's the Europeans turn. Yes Virginia, the Europeans are back in town! And yes, Virginia, we can tell because we're hearing the same rhetoric from the usual suspects being replayed on ...

Limboland

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2012

Market shocks likely: Advance Asset Management

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2012
... integrated with Asia and we have been riding the miner's back for too long. We have to shift to education and reverse the brain-drain. We cannot continue to depend on exports." America will also find it hard to initiate any meaningful structural change ...

The end is not nigh

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2012
My, my, hey, hey, rock n' roll is here to stay - or in our case Europe's sovereign debt, fiscal deficit, financial, banking, economic, political and social crisis. You name the crisis. One or more members of the Eurozone's got one, or more, or all of ...

Social media an important tool for advisers

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 FEB 2012
Success in social media is all about showing up, getting involved and adding value. That's according to Trevor Young, social media expert and strategy and innovation director at Edelman Australia, who spoke to advisers at a recent Zurich event in Sydney. ...

New Portfolio Administration Service Launches

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2012
privateWRAP, a new portfolio administration service for advisers and investors has been launched. privateWRAP Portfolio Administration Service has been designed to streamline back office administration of client portfolios for financial planners, accountants ...

The times, they're not a -changin'

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 JAN 2012
... concerted and concrete - to the crisis that has now spread to l'economia grande della Italia. Oh wait! Sowee. Think I left my brain back in 2011. For this early in 2012, the crisis looks to have spread wider. Superstition or not, the first of three Friday ...