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Principal Global secures Advance Asset mandate

RACHEL DAVIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2011
... Giles Gunesekera, head of third party sales, Principal Global Investors Australia, told Financial Standard. "Market volatility and a healthy balance sheet makes this a good time to look for opportunities, particularly in Europe." Principal Global launched ...

Aussies have more faith in super: Mercer

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2011
... score" between December 2010 and September 2011, which Mercer attributed to reduced levels of concern over share market volatility and more realistic expectations over future super balances. More working people now understand the effects of an unpredictable ...

Super assets take a hit in September

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2011
... sector fund assets decreased by 3.6 % to $195.2 billion. Keevers said the detracting figures were expected given market volatility. "As we know super funds are heavily invested in share markets, the September quarter was a particularly bad time for share ...

legalsuper launches low fee investment option

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2011
... continuing to be volatile, some members of the legal profession expressed interest in an investment option that has less volatility and lower fees. The launch of this option is in direct response to this member feedback," said Proebstl. "Index funds ...

AMP enhances super products

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2011
... for selected retail and corporate super products where term deposits are currently available. "With the sharemarket volatility that investors have seen over recent times there has been increased demand for more conservative investments options. Term ...

Ashton launches Gold Share Class

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2011
... point," said Nick Raphaely, executive director of Ashton Advisors." The gold exposure is designed to mitigate short term volatility and to preserve the value of capital, in absolute terms, over the long term. "Gold is simply a yardstick - a reference ...

Waiting to exhale 5

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 DEC 2011
So here we are... in another "waiting to exhale" moment. Like I, me and Irene expected, volatility's picked up ahead of the unveiling of yet another European Grand Plan. It's Plan Numero Five this time. And like the anticipation that went before Plans ...

Artio brings high yield to Aust instos

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 6 DEC 2011
... misunderstood in the past and actually have the potentially to deliver stronger returns than equities with a lower level of volatility. "If you looked for example, at the S&P 500 over very long periods of time, roughly 40% of its total return was derived ...

Nikko cancels $2bn IPO

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2011
... Tyndall Asset Management's owner, Nikko Asset Management, has cancelled a $2 billion share offering due to global market volatility. Announced after a board meeting, Nikko has cancelled a previously resolved secondary offering of shares and suspended ...

BlackRock launches sovereign risk management fund

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2011
... portfolios," Steve Miller, head of fixed income, BlackRock Australia. Miller also maintained the fund was suited to market volatility, which was "challenging long-held beliefs about the risk free attributes of government bonds". "Over a test period from ...