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Instos should reconsider hedging strategies: PIMCO

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2016
... strategies at the asset or portfolio level because the uniform hedging often ignores the interplay between different currencies and assets found in a multi-asset portfolio. Through sample optimisations for Australian and Japanese investors, the research ...

Slow, slower, slowing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2016
... claim perfect foresight -- my histrionics are about the trillions of dollars, euros, yens, pounds, yuan's and other currencies deployed by central banks to grow economic growth and inflate consumer price inflation. Don't get me started about interest ...

MSCI launches new insto global equity risk model

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2016
... movements, improve hedges and measure sensitivity to potentially crowded trades." The model covers 87 countries, 72 currencies and over 75,000 assets. MSCI has also promised "faster response to recent market trend with volatility regime adjustment and ...

Global equity managers not currency selectors

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2016
... (PPP-deviation). The study also identifies a significant return premium associated with stocks priced in undervalued currencies. It suggests investors should consider tailoring their investment strategies to take advantage of the return premiums identified ...

Saxo launches digital bond trading solution

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 13 SEP 2016
... than 5000 investment grade and high-yield corporate and government bonds from all over the world and in 20 different currencies, including Australian dollar denominated securities. Saxo says the move is expected to change the way investors trade bonds ...

Watershed SMA makes the right calls

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  SUNDAY, 11 SEP 2016
... quantitative easing programs in these regions would stimulate their equity markets it would equally see their respective currencies weaken against the Australian dollar. And the SMA continues to be active making positional changes against a changing ...

Austock expands investment menu

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2016
... version of the menu's existing Vanguard International Shares (Hedged) Index which is exposed to the fluctuations of the currencies its holdings are denominated in versus the Australian dollar. At Austock Life's investment portfolio level, the new diversified ...

Central bank Olympics - the race is on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2016
... leading to a deterioration in business confidence and consumer sentiment as well as to ensure smooth funding in foreign currencies by Japanese firms and financial institutions". Unlike the BOJ, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) did not blame Brexit ...

Economic wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2016
... mainland Europe itself. China's internationalising renmimbi Structural changes behind the world's three major (or G3) currencies (the US dollar, the euro and the Japanese yen) are eroding their basic currency functions with the result that their global ...

Wealth division overhauled in latest NAB restructure

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2016
... together the Corporate and Institutional Banking businesses from within Business Banking as well as the Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities (FICC) and Capital Financing businesses from within Products and Markets. Asset Servicing and International ...