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Stan Life Inv GARS added to Macquarie Wrap

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014
... (GARS) is a multi-asset strategy, which aims to provide positive returns irrespective of market conditions with reduced volatility compared to equities. "Macquarie is a well-regarded investment platform and we are thrilled GARS has been added. GARS is ...

UBS Dynamic Alpha Strategy wins large insto mandate

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2014
... return per annum above the UBS Bank bill index, over the last five years. This has been achieved with around half the volatility of equity markets over that period.

US bond market says not yet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2014
... there's increased geo-political risks - Putin and the Ukraine, Israel and Hamas, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, etc - and rising volatility, there's the IMF "advising" China to slow its economic growth, there's the US economy growing strongly that the Fed could ...

Lonsec makes portfolio manager changes after review

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014
... would suffer if those specific factors were reversed," Menniti said. "Investors are also ignoring the impact of capital volatility on total returns as they look at yield in isolation to other market factors." The research house has also made a number ...

Select brings Neuberger Berman hedge fund strategy to Australia

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2014
... strategy has raised over $1.6 billion from European and US investors over the last two years. "The recent period of low volatility has reinforced a foreboding for many investors familiar with the inherent cyclicality of investment markets. Investors ...

Wall Street snubs the IMF

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2014
... prices. Financial market risks include higher-than-expected U.S. long-term rates and a reversal of recent risk spread and volatility compression. Global growth could be weaker for longer, given the lack of robust momentum in advanced economies despite ...

IOOF launches defensive equity portfolio

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2014
... portfolio manager of Australian shares Dan Farmer said. The new product is a multimanager portfolio that targets lower volatility and higher income yield. The specific investments that will be included are the existing Australian equity buy-write mandate ...

Another October to remember?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2014
... to reaching unsustainable levels." "Sixty-seven percent of those surveyed expect the Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index to rise in the next six months." "Almost 70 percent of those surveyed said the rally in junk-rated bonds is in a bubble ...

The 60-year-old investing idea that keeps on giving

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014
... (loan-to-valuation-ratios) LVR assets, diversified by geography and by sector, we are able to deliver highly capital stable, low volatility yield." La Trobe PMO invests in a diversified, Australia-wide pool of loans secured by first ranking mortgages ...

Fed alert to market reaction to Fed action

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2014
... meeting. The financial press mostly latched on the minutes' blah, blah on the Fed's exit strategy, its concern over low volatility in the market for stocks, bonds and currencies, end to taper in October, the timing of first rate hike... blah, blah, blah ...