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Volatility predicted for emerging markets

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2012
... dollar and stress from Europe are likely to be the three factors presenting a challenge to short-term emerging market volatility, according to HSBC Global Asset Management. Guillermo Osses, head of EMD portfolio management at HSBC GAM believes that as ...

PIG now officially PIGS

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2012
... up on the Eurozone. Well... not yet, anyway. In the meantime, visibility will remain foggy, the situation fluid and volatility high, until at least next week after we know what the Greeks really want.

Perpetual argues for insto outcome focus

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2012
... classes should be re-evaluated in terms of its relative appropriateness for the current climate of deleveraging and volatility, argues Michael Blayney, head of diversified strategies Income and Multi Sector at Perpetual. "You basically have a single ...

Fidelity: Equities still a long-term option

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2012
... effects of the eurozone crisis, there are still opportunities in equities for investors with enough cash to "ride out" volatility, according to a senior Fidelity Worldwide investment head. "There are some positive things that can be said from an equity ...

Advice frameworks need an overhaul

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012
... out to achieve for the next 30 years - when you look at it in those terms, you can start to take into account market volatility and changes to client behaviour. "You start to see if taking a different investment strategy can move to something more certain ...

Investors missing the eurozone silver lining

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012
... vice president, Franklin Equity Group. "While the current headline-driven trading environment has created heightened volatility on a near-term basis, we remain focused on each company's potential ability to generate and successfully reinvest free cash ...

Bond ETFs buffering equity market volatility

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2012
... generally have a low or negative correlation to equities. "The fact that you can use bonds to buffer your equity market volatility has been a real winning factor," said Skelly. "Bond ETF's have given people an extra tool to use in their portfolio to ...

Super sector turning to dedicated long-term lenders

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2012
... government bonds are liquid, but private debt illiquid. "What we would say though, is that the price of liquidity is volatility." Balmain Investment Management is an independent funds manager specialising in secured private debt in Australia and New ...

Not that rainy day feeling again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2012
... Fortunes) Looks like I have to prefix my surname with the letters W and R for while I correctly anticipated that heightened volatility in the financial markets would remain for as long as the Grexit issue remains unresolved, I was so, so WROng in wishing ...

Barings launches Asia dynamic asset allocation fund

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2012
... Asia Dynamic Asset Allocation fund will aim to achieve Asian equity-like returns over the long-term but with lower volatility than is normal for Asian equities. Barings said they would achieve this by actively managing the fund's exposure to growth and ...