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Wagging the giant doggie

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2014
... littered with fears over slowing growth in China or a crash in its property market or a liquidity crunch or... all of the above, investors are voting with their wallets and buying (not selling) the dollar-A because they expect the Chinese economy to ...

Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Oi, Oi, Oi

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2014
... Iraq. There's also the price of iron ore dropping to near two-year lows. And yet... the Australian dollar did a peek-a-boo above the US$0.94 level - a level it hasn't seen since last April (when the Fed promised to go slow and late on the timing of any ...

Mandates and pricing boost MetLife, TAL group inflows

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
Superannuation fund insurance mandates and pricing increases placed MetLife and TAL well above-average in annual group risk inflows. MetLife recorded a 105.9% increase in overall group risk premium inflows during the year ended March 2014, according ...

Australia among the big guns in millionaire stakes

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2014
... households are projected to hold US$13.0 trillion in wealth (6.5% of the total) by the end of 2018. Wealth held by all segments above US$1 million is projected to grow by at least 7.7% per year through 2018, compared with an average of 3.7% per year ...

DST's Anova named best middle office solution

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2014
... to be seen at the forefront in meeting middle office challenges for investment management companies striving to deliver above market investment returns to their clients." The market for businesses like DST has opened up in the last couple of years with ...

Investors return to active global equities managers

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... stocks in an index to move in line with each other. Data from Citi shows long-term trend stock correlations have dropped from above 30% in 2011 to just under 20% now. "Declining stock correlations show that investors have become more discerning, allowing ...

Beware high correlations: AQR

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... a performance fee. However, when markets fall, these strategies tend to fall further while managers continue to collect above average fees. Kabiller said that investors also need to be wary that quantitative models often lead hedge managers to the same ...

Nothing's good enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2014
... consensus expectations for an already strong 0.9% advance - and by 3.5% over the year - the fastest pace in nearly two years and above trend growth of 3.25%. Please no, don't rejoice! Wipe that smile off your faces for, if you believe the overriding ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
... Wednesday showed the economy expanded by a solid 1.1 per cent, lifting the annual rate to 3.5 per cent. This is comfortably above the economy's long-term trend of around 3.25 per cent. IG market strategist Evan Lucas said initial market reaction to the ...

Waiting for the ECB to exhale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
... in its key interest rate or a negative deposit rate or extend long-term loans to financial institutions or... all of the above. But in case you didn't notice, the euro has only fallen by a mere 0.3% versus the greenback to 1.3627 last night from 1.3672 ...