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Asset allocation shifts as EM turns strategic: MFS

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2013
Institutional investors are starting to look at the emerging market asset class more of a 'strategic' rather than an 'opportunistic' play, according to a visiting global portfolio manager. Thomas Melendez, Institutional Equity Portfolio Manager - MFS ...

Reignited euro crisis prompts gold rush

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2013
Global traders are rushing to buy gold as the eurozone crisis once again rears its ugly head. The number of traders betting on a rise in the price of the precious metal grew faster than at any point since the onset of the financial crisis, according ...

EM debt funds burst bond bubble fears

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2013
Despite fears of a global bond bubble, investors have poured into emerging market debt at record rates. Last year was the most successful on record for the asset class with inflows reaching more than $94 billion and average returns were in excess of ...

Falling BRICs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2013
Now wasn't that just classic entertainment? I doubt that even the best of the best comedic minds could come up with a farce such as the one the Australian Labor Party delivered for our viewing, hearing and reading pleasure yesterday. For after all the ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2013
Australian stocks have opened firmer, with the big retail banks and major energy companies leading the broader market higher. Local investors took their cues from a positive night on Wall Street, where the Dow advanced 0.39 per cent, the S&P500 climbed ...

AMP awarded $800m equity mandate

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2013
AMP Capital has been awarded an $800m equity mandate by Insurance Australia Group (IAG), Financial Standard understands. The mandate has gone to the AMP Enhanced Index Share fund, which invests in companies listed on the ASX. The strategy combines strong ...

SSgA launches low-risk global equity fund

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2013
Active management is a tough game and picking active managers is just as tough, warns State Street Global Advisers' Lochiel Crafter. The head of investments for the Asia Pacific at SSgA says that investors are often disappointed by the returns generated ...

Age pension is retirees' main income source

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2013
The age pension becomes the main source of income for Australians once they retire while their portfolio exposure to equities decreases as time passes. Justin Wood, a founding shareholder of Vinva Investment Management, explained to the Conference of ...

Ben's your uncle

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2013
Fed promise soothes Cyprus worries. These five words sum up the financial markets' performance while we slept. Good thing the US Federal Reserve's monthly FOMC meeting came when it did -- right in the midst of another bout of European contagion speculation. ...

SPAA raises alarm on draft SMSF rules

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2013
Draft legislation rules for self managed super funds on related party transactions has alarmed industry association SPAA, which claims the provisions are unnecessarily complex and will add compliance costs. The new provisions are contained in Schedule ...