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Aurora targets retail investors with liquid hedge fund

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 22 APR 2013
... Institute showed that those which offer greater liquidity tend to return less. However, Schweighauser believes that in a low-yield world investors with an appetite for alternative strategies may benefit from sacrificing a little return for the advantages ...

Australian equity managers overlooking value stocks

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2013
A bias towards the most defensive stocks in the Australian share market indicates portfolio managers are overlooking significant opportunities in value stocks, according to a new report by van Eyk. The investment research house revealed that out of ...

May's not far away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2013
... bonds last night was well-bid and sold for at much lower yields. In fact, the 10-year bonds sold for 4.61% -- the lowest yield in 3 years - down from 4.90% at last month's auction and down, down from the all-time high of 7.59% recorded only in July last ...

No problemo

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 APR 2013
... money game on commodities? Those jumping the commodity ship need to find another boat to ride. There's cash. No, not much yield in it, if at all. There's the bond market. Perhaps. The Fed's buying, the Bank of Japan's buying, but with yields so low...there's ...

Don't sell your fixed income investments: JBWere

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2013
Even though bond yields sit at record low levels, it would be unwise for investors to sell out of their fixed income assets, warned JBWere's Giselle Roux. The chief investment officer and head of investment strategy group at the private wealth specialist ...

Still opportunities for flexible bond managers

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2013
Finding good returns in the fixed income market in 2013 is going to take a lot of flexibility, according to global fixed income giant Amundi. Equity market volatility and the compression of bond yields around the world has made fixed income assets a ...

Can't lose

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 APR 2013
... bonds to the BOJ look for higher yielding replacements...Ten-year Treasurys to us look very low-yielding, but to them they yield 125 basis points more." Of course, they'll find their way into even higher yielding and even higher-rated Australian bonds ...

CFS fund celebrates 5-year anniversary with aplomb

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2013
... over the past five years, the fund has also achieved its income objectives of returning at least 2.5% above the dividend yield of the S&P/ASX 100 Index over a rolling three year period," he said. The fund has outperformed the market over the past five ...

Zenith reaffirms RFM livestock fund recommendation

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2013
... driven by the subsequent sale of livestock calculated as a fixed return on capital, and providing investors with a reliable yield. Livestock markets offer a truly alternative source of beta which are almost completely uncorrelated to mainstream assets. ...

Canadian pension funds flock to Aussie infra

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2013
"Safe-haven" Australian infrastructure and property assets are seeing a wave of interest from Canadian pension fund investors, according to The Trust Company. Fresh from a visit to some of Canada's leading pension funds, Andrew Cannane, general manager ...