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Infrastructure boom set to continue

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2013
Global infrastructure investments have bounced back from GFC-losses to post equity-like returns, but with lower volatility, according to the Lonsec Research review of the asset class. The Lonsec Infrastructure Securities Sector Review, which covered ...

Improving picture paints a taper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2013
... stimulative for a while longer. The minutes of the 18-19 June FOMC meeting could produce another bout of financial market volatility when it's released later this week (10 July) - depending on how the headlines spin its contents -- as would the flow ...

Guiding it forward

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2013

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2013
... Morsi boosted the price of crude oil and shares in energy companies. The strong gains marked another day of market volatility, with shares shifting between big losses and big gains each day this week. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index on Thursday was up ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2013
... seeing, it's a correction from probably what was over-done yesterday," IG market strategist Evan Lucas told AAP. "The volatility is ginormous and a lot of movement today will be quite violent because people don't have the gauge of what's going on in ...

FirstChoice platform offers PIMCO bonds

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2013
... available on FirstChoice and it follows a strategy of seeking strong, consistent investment returns while moderating volatility. The PIMCO global bond offering on FirstChoice invests in government, corporate, mortgage and other fixed income securities ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2013
... good day, especially mining stocks that recently have been battered. "We should see blanket pick-ups, but the VIX (volatility) index is still quite high suggesting the massive gyrations are still there weighing us down," he said. Resources giant BHP ...

Oh how welcome thy voice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUN 2013
... disappear". Hot on the PBOC's heels, the ECB also offered words of comfort (and meguess, mainly to head off further volatility in its region). In a speech in London, ECB policymaker Benoit Coeure assured markets that, "The various non-standard measures ...

Is it safe?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 JUN 2013
... question is what happens now? Is now safe? Well...it all depends. If you're looking very short-term, then expect more volatility until financial market traders (and their algorithms) make up their mind one way or the other. There's still the potential ...

The great unwind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2013
... to' asset class - US Treasuries -- during times like these are the very ones that are being hammered more and their volatility spiking way up into the stratosphere. The yield on US 10-year benchmark Treasuries jumped to 2.47% (a 22-month high) and volatility ...