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Activist shareholders agitate AMP China fund

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2015
... has experienced acute volatility," the letter said. "For those investors who have only recently invested, this price correction has had a negative impact." Reacting to the statement by LIM Advisors, AMP Capital said: "We always take the concerns of our ...

ANALYSIS: The dragon in the room

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2015
... international trade Russell Wilkinson says. However, Instreet Investment managing director George Lucas warns that a correction in the Chinese market could seriously affect Australian investors. "The recent selloff in Australia is being driven by the ...

Instos overconfident on drawdown risks

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2015
... protection strategies, but 91% were very or somewhat confident in their portfolio's ability to weather a major market correction. The 'Walking the tightrope report, how CIOs are balancing upside participation and downside protection' surveyed 420 senior ...

Australian market set for further falls

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2015
... around 5,390 points. That's more than 10 per cent below its high of 5,998 in April, putting the index officially in correction territory. Almost $40 billion was wiped from the Australian sharemarket on Monday in one of its worst sessions in years as ...

Market set to open higher

AAP  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2015
... had flooded the market on margin trading - borrowing cash to buy stocks - decided to pull out as the index suffers a correction. The market, which surged 150 per cent in the year to June 12, eventually closed down 7.40 per cent, or 334.91 points at 4,192.87 ...

Tassie RBF awards GAM $100m mandate

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2015
... fund was looking for strategies with higher alpha potential while giving downside protection against a major market correction and/or rising interest rates. "With their long-term performance track record, focus on risk control and experience in the absolute ...

Light at the end of the tunnel for EM debt

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
The correction in emerging markets fixed income has started, but this also means that the rebound is closer than investors initially expected, Lazard Asset Management said. In January 2015, it took one and a half months before emerging markets debt ...

Investors pretending there's value in the market

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
... Leyland explains, adding that bond-like equities in traditionally defensive sectors look particularly vulnerable to a correction. "You need the valuation discipline to spot when there's little opportunity," he continued. "To borrow a cricketing term ...

Grexit nears, markets cheer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015
... Reuters quotes KBC senior economist Koen De Leus saying that "Tuesday's recovery is not sustainable"... "I see another correction of at least 5 percent in the coming weeks as it seems that Greece and its creditors are still far away from an agreement." ...

Rising bond yields a blip

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2015
... "Meaning that Australian bond yields have probably risen too far," Roberts said. "It also implies that the downward correction in the Australian sharemarket, driven substantially by falls in high-yielding bank shares, may have pushed too far as well ...