Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 1241 - 1250 of 2916 results for "Volatility"

The Fed's aware of building imbalances

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 NOV 2017
... estate cap rates and valuation measures of debt and other markets appear notably extended." Measures of stock market volatility are historically low. We have now gone 12 months without a 3% correction in the US market. This is extraordinarily unusual. ...

Fund managers should have personal stake: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 27 NOV 2017
... listed markets, the consumer staples sector has recorded the second highest total return, and the second lowest total volatility over 40 years. This week we ask if the launch of Amazon in Australia will negatively affect the local retail sector.

Iron ore's ups and downs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 NOV 2017
... day of the RBA's September meeting and 14.9% down from the start of 2017. Still, anything can still happen given the volatility in iron ore prices this year. In mid-July this year that iron ore was considered in a bull market (defined as a 20% and over ...

SSGA dismisses ETF bubble concerns

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 NOV 2017
... While LaValle conceded "the jury is still out" on whether the growth in passive investments more broadly is impacting volatility, price discovery and liquidity, "it's something we're looking at quite closely." He added that it's a further misconception ...

BetaShares launches Australian-first hybrids ETF

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 21 NOV 2017
... attractive tax-efficient income while also providing generally higher levels of capital stability and lower levels of volatility compared to Australian shares. It also provides those who otherwise own only a handful of hybrids directly with greater portfolio ...

BNP Paribas Asset Management restructures for efficiency

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 20 NOV 2017
... investment solutions that better address their specific needs, whether greater protection against the risks of market volatility or strategies that meet regulatory constraints, head of MAQS, Panel said. "Combining our capabilities into a single investment ...

ARCO Investment Management launches new strategy

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 20 NOV 2017
... tooth. Offshore central banks seem keen to lift rates and tighten liquidity, which may well increase equity market volatility," ARCO co-founder and co-portfolio manager George Colman said. He said that there seems to be less immediate upward pressure ...

Watermark hires global equities lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 16 NOV 2017
... the rising market in the second half of 2016." It did however, deliver consistent positive rates of return with low volatility relative to the market despite difficult conditions for market-neutral strategies. Watermark's other funds include: Australian ...

Charter Hall launches fund, backs consumer spending

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2017
... listed markets, the consumer staples sector has recorded the second highest total return, and the second lowest total volatility over 40 years. Head of Citi Research Australia and lead consumer sector analyst Craig Woolford told the briefing that since ...

Two holds and a raise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 31 OCT 2017
... October - 1 November. Although there are other fishes to fry - Trump tax cuts, Trump nomination of new Fed head, low volatility in the financial markets (read, complacency), perhaps even "irrational exuberance" - the US economy proceeds as it had been ...