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Cheque's not yet in the mail

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2012
... stirred - the S&P 500 and European bourses ended down just an itsy bitsy bit with the Dow and the FTSE even closing on the plus side. And this despite more bad news last night - Moody's downgraded the PITS (Portugal, ITaly and Spain) along with Slovakia ...

Instos face debate on EM strategy

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2012
... asset class is a necessary focus across the entire range of available securities. This allows for better returns than core plus managers, who tend to allocate to an asset class through larger securities taking only limited exposure in locally denominated ...

Volatility is MIA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2012
... reports - coming on the same day as they did - would have created gyrations in the equity markets in the order of at least plus and minus 1.5%. Easy. For your reference, the S&P 500's daily closings gyrated between plus 1.3% and minus 1.5% on average ...

Waiting for jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012
... the US ISM manufacturing index (America's PMI) missed expectations but at 54.1 - it certainly remains in expansion mode. Plus, have you heard that bond auctions in Europe continued to go well? There was strong demand for Spain's a,-4.56 bil auction and ...

Perpetual hires ex-port manager to equities team

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 31 JAN 2012
... of the Ellerston Capital Global Equity Management (GEM) Fund, Aboud will work with Paul Skamvougeras on Perpetual's Share Plus Long Short Fund along with responsibilities on the development of a new absolute return equity products. Aboud worked with ...

HESTA makes board and exec team changes

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 31 JAN 2012
... already experienced team, at both Board and staff level, have the capacity to enhance the services we provide to our 730,000 plus membership," said HESTA chief executive Anne-Marie Corboy. HESTA has more than 730,000 members with $18 billion in assets ...

Risk focus needed for sustainable investing: MLC

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 30 JAN 2012
... this level of return in the future. "Interest rate cuts by the Reserve Bank have reduced term deposit rates below 6% now. Plus, bond yields have declined significantly over the past year - while this has reaped benefits for bond investors to date, future ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2012
... Greece's debt were progressing and reports that France and Germany were calling for a relaxation of global bank capital rules. Plus, a weaker US dollar helped resources shares gain with investors buying into commodity markets despite a muted performance ...

Waiting to exhale 5

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2011
... bated breaths. Despite the intra-day volatility in the European equity market - the DJ Euro Stoxx Index seesawed between plus 1.7% and down 1.8% -- it ended, in what we consider practically unchanged these days, down 0.5% last night. Similarly, the FTSE-100 ...

She's becoming right, mate

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2011
... Sisyphus has rolled the boulder up that mountain once more. But he didn't do it alone. He got help. Help from six big CB's plus one. The US Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, the Bank of Japan, the Bank of England, the Bank of Canada and the ...