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Investor cash obsession worries wealth creators

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2012
Despite growing speculation that the next bull market run is just around the corner, historically low interest rates, and a call by RBA governor Glenn Stevens for investors to return to shares, investors' remain unwaveringly committed to cash. Following ...

Lonsec and Milliman challenge current advice model for retirees

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2012
... Matterson, practice leader at Milliman. "With a growing number of baby-boomers reaching retirement age, and the end of the bull market in Australian equities in 2008, many retirees - and their advisers - are questioning how they will meet their retirement ...

Pick your poison

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012
... bottomed on 9 March 2009, it has been on a bull run. That's if you believe the Dow Theory of course. It states that a bull market is where new highs surpass previous highs and new lows are higher than the previous lows. Here's the evidence: S&P 500 Index ...

Super industry responds to MYEFO

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2011
... markets. "While market-linked 'pensions' invested heavily in equities were the most popular retirement product in the bull market they can't be relied on to provide bedrock or lifetime retirement income, and need to be supplemented with fixed income ...

Instos embrace low volatility equity portfolios

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2011
Low-volatility equity portfolios may be the answer to some institutional investor prayers, according to AllianceBernstein's head of quantitative research, with strength in downside protection balanced with trending upward markets. Kent Hargis, AllianceBernstein's ...

No-bull bull market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2011
... and South Africa jumped at least 1.4 percent." What do these tell us, Sisyphus? These confirm that equities are in a bull market and a not a bear market rally as the prophets of doom would have you believe. Market history observers note that during bull ...

Large funds use scale to boost after-tax savings

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 FEB 2011
... this service whereas Towers Watson said the quantitative evidence that supports this theory is based on data from a bull market (2007). Therefore, share portfolios that lost money in recent years would theoretically report a different set of numbers. ...

China inflation fears overplayed

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 10 DEC 2010
... inflation figures this weekend, but one fund manager believes that the concerns are overdone - and the multi-year bull market in Asian equities is only just beginning. Fears are building that 'QE2', the US Fed's controversial monetary easing, is fuelling ...

More turbulence ahead: De Bever

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2010
... differently," he said. De Bever said that "we are in for some really bad times in the bond market", arguing that the 30 year bull market in bonds (one of only two such episodes in history) is over. "All the consultants are telling my clients that now ...

Bored with half-empty glasses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUL 2010
... be all wise and prescient and the bulls were peddling pies in the sky. In each instance, the world got over it, the bull market resumed. All aboard!