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Property set for attractive multi-year returns: Stan Life

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2012
... investors via the rents paid by tenants of the underlying assets. With falling cash rates, continued equity market volatility and a subdued global growth outlook, investors are flocking to yield generating investments with alternatives like real estate ...

Beware defensive funds: Towers Watson

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2012
The explosion in demand for low volatility and defensive equity funds is making these assets too expensive, says Towers Watson's Stephen Miles. The group's global head of equities says the substantial increase in the number of defensive equity products ...

New rules for HFT trading

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2012
... confidence in Australia's financial markets. "I believe that these new rules will help to reduce the risk of market volatility from high frequency trading and provide increased investor protection for retail investors and others trading in dark pools," ...

Same old blues but some upside in 2013: Russell and Threadneedle

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2012
... and Threadneedle agree that while equities will provide modest returns in 2013, they see little evidence that market volatility will abate. In their respective market outlooks for November, both global investment houses pointed to improvements in the ...

EQT equity fund highly rated by Lonsec

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2012
... The report said: "A positive feature of the Fund's historical performance has been the observed levels of absolute volatility being consistently lower [than its peer group]. Lonsec added that the investment team's research process, established 2003 and ...

Investor cash obsession worries wealth creators

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2012
... money still parked in the 'folding stuff' - due to what have been attractive term-deposit rates and protracted market volatility - is a lingering nemesis confronting the wealth creation industry. While falling interest rates and a slightly improved global ...

Retirement solution upside for investment managers: Oliver Wyman

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2012
... to around $1 billion in 2012. "What's causing this negative impact to flows and the outlook is ongoing share market volatility and investor risk aversion," Hook Explained. Equally concerning for investment managers, Hook added is the ongoing growth of ...

Low-volatility post-retirement solutions needed: Bell

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2012
... capital to drive income in retirement, David Bell of St Davids Road Advisory expects to see growing interest in low-volatility, post-retirement solutions. Speaking at yesterday's Investment Management Consultants Association (IMCA) annual conference ...

van Eyk launches new asset allocation tool

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2012
... active investment management within a long-term strategic asset allocation. "Investors should expect ongoing market volatility given the global debt burden and extreme monetary policies and cannot rely solely on market trends to deliver superior returns," ...

Successful Telstra bond issue to open flood gates for big banks

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012
... of market research specialist Lincoln Indicators believes that falling term-deposit rates and continued stock market volatility have created a thirst for low-risk bonds from high quality issuers. "Corporate bond, hybrids and other interest rate insensitive ...