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Tassie RBF awards GAM $100m mandate

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2015
... strategies with higher alpha potential while giving downside protection against a major market correction and/or rising interest rates. "With their long-term performance track record, focus on risk control and experience in the absolute return space ...

Animal spirits may be playing with fire

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
... papers in the RBA's quarterly bulletin, several themes were addressed. In the paper Firms' Investment Decisions and Interest Rates, many firms reported that low interest rates do not directly encourage investment. "Detailed discussions with managers ...

Milliman seeing shift in bond portfolios

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
... the stock market was an approach that served investors well leading up to the financial crisis. Low yields and interest rates mean bonds now offer less appeal as a risk diversification tool and financial advisers have had to rethink their traditional ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
... Wednesday's Federal Reserve policy announcement and pledge from Chair Janet Yellen that the US central bank will raise interest rates from near-zero levels only gradually. "The key takeaway is that the Fed will move more slowly than they previously said," ...

Market to open higher

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015
... altered the outlook for US monetary policy after a weak first quarter. Although the Fed is not expected to lift interest rates on Wednesday, Chair Janet Yellen could signal a move is near. Equity markets in France and Germany rebounded despite worries ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2015
... pullback in US equities, including next week's Federal Reserve policy meeting that will update the Fed's plan to hike interest rates in the coming months. Petroleum stocks dropped on lower oil prices. Dow members Chevron and ExxonMobil fell by 1.2 per ...

QIC asks government to step up, break toxic cycle

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2015
... finances. Government revenue would go down by $10 billion per annum and this would justify the RBA further lowering interest rates to 1.25, but we don't think that will happen because it's too aggressive a move for the housing market," he added. This ...

Market to open flat

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2015
... funding. WELLINGTON - New Zealand shares have rallied after the Reserve Bank surprised some investors by cutting interest rates. The NZX50 Index rose 54.548 points, or 0.9 per cent, to 5858.413 on Thursday.

Market to open higher

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2015
... against the Japanese currency, fuelled by two US reports that gave the Federal Reserve more ammunition to raise interest rates. With US markets ending largely unchanged, the region had few catalysts to fuel trade, while Greece's ongoing bailout reform ...

Market to open flat

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2015
... director of Marblehead Asset Management. He said that surging US Treasury yields, reflecting the expectation of higher interest rates, had traders on edge. "If these rates keep going up, I think you're going to get some real concerns about stocks." Dow ...