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Financial Planners warm to absolute return funds

... distribution Oscar Martinis said the results highlight a fundamental shift in attitude of the retail market following the bear market of 2000-2003. "This year's research shows a significant jump in portfolio allocations from past surveys and suggests ...

Public sector super giants drop member crediting rates

... Legislation prevents the funds from declaring negative crediting rates even when investment markets turn south. The bear market between 2001-2003 led to the both funds drawing down reserves to maintain a zero crediting rate. The introduction of exit ...

S&P research reveals turnover frequency of funds impacts long-term returns

... turnover peers in all nine domestic fund styles on a three and five-year annualised basis. "During the recently concluded bear market, it was clear that funds with a lower than average turnover outperformed those with a high turnover," said Phil Edwards ...

Policy reflation likely for the US

... be the consequences of such a policy shift, which will add negatives to the US dollar. As a result the US dollar's bear market is not yet over and a further dollar weakness, against the euro, yen and "commodity currencies" is expected. Economists in ...

Small caps fire investor interest: fund managers

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2003
... Asian share markets reached their lowest levels, and a year since the United States equity markets bottomed in the bear market. Since then the ASX and other markets have rebounded and started posting positive returns. Deutsche Asset Management said today ...

Australian insurer AMP prefers UK demerger

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2003
... wants to insulate its profitable Australian business from the British life operation, which was hit hard by the worst bear market since World War Two. AMP has stopped selling new policies in its three life divisions. Earlier this month it delayed lodging ...

Investment Analysis: The stock-picker's market

... why 'value' style managers were currently in favour, and it also illustrated the importance of defensive stocks in a bear market.

Hurdles lie in wait for Australian economy: Commonwealth Bank

... the last 12 months it has dropped significantly," he added. "A couple of weeks ago signalled the confirmation of a bear market, which is defined as a 20% drop in the price of a market. More recently, the Australian market has rallied in the run up to ...

Morning market wrap: Shares plummet as reality sets in

... Standard chief economist Dr Rob Pereira. "The market is continuing its medium to long term trend downwards. We're in a bear market," Pereira added. All Ordinaries: 2828.50 (-0.00) Dow Jones: 8214.68 (-307.29) NASDAQ: 1369.78 (-52.06) FTSE-100: 3743.30 ...