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Zenith reaffirms RFM livestock fund recommendation

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2013
... completely uncorrelated to mainstream assets. StockBank is therefore recommended as a risk diversifier in a portfolios with high risk tolerance weighted toward traditional asset classes. Zeniths said that unlike some agricultural themed investments in ...

Low risk choice poses high risk on savings: survey

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2013
... worse off at retirement than if they had chosen an investment option with a more growth orientation labelled "medium to high risk." Meanwhile, 29 per cent of young people either didn't know what a "low risk" investment was or thought it would provide ...

Suncorp and Bendigo jump on hybrid demand

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2012
Listed insurance company Suncorp is one of the latest to tap into investor demand for high yields with the launch of a $350 million Tier 1 hybrid offer this week. The insurance giant said that the money raised from the hybrids which are called Convertible ...

Legal challenges face default super inquiry

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2012
... well as funds that were excluded. Or, even worse may be if the fund has defaulted or collapsed - not to say there is a high risk of that but things can happen and funds can end up insolvent. "We're saying if the government wants to go down the road of ...

Investment grade wine attracts global wealth

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2012
... to the relative low volatility of 10.6% of the London International Vintner's Exchange (Liv-ex) Fine Wine Index and high risk-adjusted return (Sharpe ratio of 1.07) as evidence that investment grade wine has qualities suitable for the current economic ...

Bentham attracts new super mandates

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAY 2012
... part of an asset allocation fills a gap between the extremes of low risk/lower growth in cash and term deposits and high risk growth dependant equities. "Those with exposure to a well-diversified portfolio of local and global credit investments are eligible ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2012
... took a tumble overnight. "There is more of a cautious mood setting in across markets and when that happens you see the high risk/high yielding assets like the Aussie dollar lose steam," he said. In Europe, London's FTSE 100 dropped 1.03 per cent and ...

Where now brown cow?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2012
... greater risk of sovereign restructuring than ever before." Greece "will have to restructure again," Portugal has a "very high risk" of restructuring next year and Ireland requires "additional official sector support." There's also our old friend Ben ...

ASIC to take hard line on deliberately misleading ads

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2012
... advertisement should not undermine the importance of the risks." ASIC specified contracts for difference (CFDs) as being high risk products that can potentially expose investors to larges loss, and said ads shouldn't allude to the contrary. "Build personal ...

S&P downgrades US bank ratings

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2011
... criteria included the approach to investment banking, funding analysis, and the capital standards used, particularly in high risk countries. Wall Street had closed before these latest downgrades were announced. S&P downgraded the ratings of the following ...