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S&P and ASX launch Aussie "fear index"

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2010
Standard & Poor's and the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) have launched an Australian version of the "VIX" volatility index, colloquially referred to as the gauge of fear on Wall Street. The S&P/ASX 200 VIX index will measure the expected volatility ...

Watching the A$ watch the Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 SEP 2010
... bad news. What does this mean for the Australian dollar? I linked this in because of a recent Bloomberg report that the "Aussie is 27 per cent too expensive" based on purchasing power parity. This means that the Australian dollar should be trading at ...

Aussies fear super balances

MEDIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 10 SEP 2010
More Australians don't know how much they have in their super today than a year ago, research shows. The second annual Suncorp Life Attitudes to Superannuation in Australia Survey assessed consumers' concerns about having enough money to retire on and ...

INGIM hires two for Aussie equities

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 6 SEP 2010
ING Investment Management (INGIM) Australia has moved swiftly to strengthen its Australian equities team after suffering the departure of its small companies lead portfolio manager in August. Phillip Hudak has been hired by INGIM as a small companies ...

UK bid to attract Aussie investors

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 3 SEP 2010
The UK government is rolling out new initiatives to make the UK more attractive for local businesses and investors. Currently, Australia is the sixth largest major investor in Britain while the UK is Australia's second largest investor, with Britain ...

Aussie equities get clean bill of health

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2010
With the dust settled on reporting season, Goldman Sachs Asset Management head of Australian equities Dion Hershan said that Australian equities look selectively attractive. Hershan said that while the last reporting season pointed to healthy balance ...

Rising markets boost Perpetual's bottom line

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 24 AUG 2010
... with spreads beginning to contract and end investors returning to the market. "There is a high level of awareness that Aussie RMBS is a high quality product," said chief executive, David Deverall. Deverall said that Perpetual Investments' strong record ...

DB's Boyton sees "slow, steady decline" in Aussie housing

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 20 AUG 2010
Deutsche Bank Australia chief economist Adam Boyton weighed in on one of the hottest topics within wealth management at the Deutsche Asset Management conference this morning in Sydney. "The long-term trajectory I think for house prices in Australia ...

452 Capital mandates at risk

RUTH LIEW AND JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 19 AUG 2010
... considering [it closely]," he said. The $17 billion-plus REST Super is also a client of 452 Capital, and has a $750 million Aussie equities mandate with the firm, Rainmaker Information shows. Financial Standard could not reach REST Super by press time. ...

Aussie planners should turn to Asia: Hockey

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 13 AUG 2010
The shadow treasurer, Joe Hockey, urges financial planners in Australia to expand their client base to Asia as the region's wealth continues to escalate. "I think Australian financial advisers are among the very best of the world," he said at an Association ...