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Liquidity comes at a price: Certitude

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2012
... correlated to equities and fixed income." He says manufactured liquidity negatively impacts investment performance and volatility - hence defeating the purpose of having a true absolute return fund - by significantly overweighting to cash, and in some ...

Controversial short-sell ban inconclusive

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2012
... the ban may have contributed to some adverse market characteristics, such as reduced liquidity and increased price volatility. "While these effects would normally run counter to our objectives, the review concludes that the exceptional circumstances ...

Investors warned on VIX futures

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2012
... from VIX futures as a passive standalone strategy, one manager has warned, saying that a flexible approach to buying volatility is necessary to avoid suffering high carry and rolling costs. When volatility hit the headlines in 2008, many turned to the ...

No BO news till elections please?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2012
... troika report on Greece would be bad. If so, Grexit becomes an issue again, then contagion speculations, then market volatility and ructions. And this will smell BO - bad for Obama. Not that Europe needs convincing, Europe's anti-Romney. "As far as European ...

A stock market rally could get Obama over the line

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012
... 15% to 20%, to a complete postponement of tough decisions on how to tackle the deficit. This would likely see higher volatility and US equities returning in the 0-10% range for 2013. The best-case scenario for equities would be what HSBC terms 'The Middle ...

Quest for lower volatility spurs new Aus EM fund

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 20 SEP 2012
... Australian fund version of its Emerging Markets Total Opportunities strategy, aimed at capturing growth while dampening volatility. The objective-based strategy focuses on investing in a range of traded securities from more than 60 developing markets. ...

New MLC product protects retirees from volatility

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 20 SEP 2012
... launch a new MasterKey Investment Protection product to help Australians protect their retirement savings from ongoing volatility in equity markets. MLC's new retirement product offers two forms of protection, protected capital and protected income ...

BlackRock to focus on model-based fixed income inv

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2012
... and process large amounts of data. Models, he added, can continuously incorporate investment insights from equity, volatility, commodity and currency markets.

Defensive investors may have traded risks

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2012
... be invested each in floating rate, fixed rate and inflation-linked securities. "Firstly a high credit quality, low volatility "floating rate" component that is highly liquid and whose capital price is highly stable, can help to dilute other sources of ...

Altius: Role of fixed interest hazy

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2012
... income, the stability of capital values and the realisation that the performance of the security will flatten out the volatility of the equity holding. These are three things, added Bovingdon that help investors sleep better at night in terms of a more ...