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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2012
... manufacturing figures from China and good news from Europe. The yen eased against the dollar and euro as traders moved out of the safe-haven currency in the wake of the optimistic news while strong US consumer spending data also provided support. Tokyo ...

Retirement not an automatic trigger for defensive strategies

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2012
Dynamic asset allocation is an alternative approach to defensive strategies in retirement investing options, according to a new white paper from Towers Watson. In the paper, "Finding the balance, strategies to improve post retirement investing", Towers ...

Strong period for markets ahead: K2

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2012
... programs are working and justification to why K2 follows a high equity exposure." K2 said that despite trends to place funds in safe cash holdings, the asset manager prefers to have the ability to move the net equity around which the firm said was an ...

Global govt bonds downgrade: Towers Watson

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2012
... compensate long-term investors for duration risk. On-going money printing by central banks and flows into assets perceived as safe have pushed the risk premium significantly lower, according to the firm, with quantitative easing absorbing a significant ...

Austerity's political pay-off

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 FEB 2012
... government spending through cuts to public-sector employment and restructuring pensions, Custard commented that the UK was not safe from being caught up in the European slowdown and that austerity measures had come with the worst strikes since the Thatcher ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 FEB 2012
... has traded between 106.58 US cents and 107.18 cents. Nomura head of foreign exchange Kurt Magnus said there was a trend of safe-haven buying in the leadup to the European Central Bank's second long-term refinancing operation (LTRO). "We've seen some ...

Record month for ETPs

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 23 FEB 2012
Global asset flows for exchange traded products (ETP) and fixed income exchange traded funds (ETF) hit record highs last month, according to latest research. The BlackRock ETP Landscape report from revealed the ETP sector had its strongest ever January ...

Problem solved, not

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 FEB 2012
Anti-climax? Selling on news, perhaps? Whatever it is, European equity markets and Wall Street looked like they weren't impressed by reports that the deal has been done. It's been signed, sealed, though yet to de delivered. To be sure, the Dow had a ...

Planners need to commit to the social media conversation

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 21 FEB 2012
... optimise their websites or use social media so that they rank well in consumer internet searches," Williams said. "It's pretty safe to say that most financial planners probably aren't getting even the tip of the iceberg of internet search inquiries." ...

Waiting for the midnight hour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 FEB 2012
... announcement that it is reducing its banks' reserve requirement - and European ones overnight (Wall Street's on holiday), it's safe to assume that everyone and his cat are punting on an "aye" vote. The EU authorities are just waiting for the midnight ...