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Retail funds narrow satisfaction gap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2011
... in full swing. "The satisfaction gap between Industry Funds and the Big 6 Retail Funds has continued to narrow in recent times and at 3.5%, is now at its smallest since before the Global Financial Crisis," said Norman Morris, Roy Morgan's industry communications ...

Super keeping economy strong: ASFA

RACHEL DAVIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2011
Australia's superannuation funds are a key factor in helping Australia through times of global market volatility, according to new research commisioned by ASFA. 'Enhancing financial stability and economic growth: the contribution of superannuation' ...

A penny saved could spark a recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2011
... that's doing it but a number of nations are saving. I, me and Irene may be applauding this 'Age of Austerity'. How many times did our parents tried to hammer into our thick skulls the virtue of "saving for a rainy day" ? But isn't 'now' that rainy day? ...

Market dislocation shifts share trade to dark pools, ETFs

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2011
... Dividend rose from 15,329 to 63,153. Mark Oliver, managing director of iShares Australia, said traders moved to ETFs in times of market dislocation to be able to have diversification with the advantage of liquidity. "ETFs deliver that, in a single trade ...

Black swans test strength of portfolio construction

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2011
... out to the tail edges of the bell curve. Instead, there were 358 days. "What it means is that these events occurred six times more often than we would predict, given a normal distribution," he said. "Fat tail risk is far more extreme than predicted. ...

Lost GPS

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2011
And so here we are ladies and gents. Very much unsure of where financial markets are gonna go. In times like these, it becomes so easy to get swept up by the mood of the mob. Someone shouts "sell" and everybody rush to the exits - never mind why, we ...

ETF provider wants to expand asset class range

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2011
... Report. They had a combined market capitalization of $4.5 billion, an increase of 20.4% from July 2010 and were traded 15,075 times in the year. SSgA released three new funds into the Australian market in the last year, the S&P/ASX200 Financials X A-REITs ...

Stocks rally hard as Australia deemed a bargain buy

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2011
... opportunity was opening. Keenan said the Australian market looked cheap on the fundamentals with banks trading at 9 to 10 times earnings with 8% yields. Volatility was still likely to be an issue with a choppy lead from the US and expectations of future ...

Fed move checks markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2011
... it'll produce the same ill will that neutralises the policy's purpose. As Paul Krugman wrote in his blog for the New York Times back in November 2010, "...yelling and screaming as the Fed attempts QE, this will have the effect of undermining the policy's ...

Goodbye or good buy?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2011
Time to say good buy or goodbye? Is this the best of times or is this the worst of times? The dreaded DD (double-dip) is back on the headlines. So is the R (recession). And with them comes Armageddon. I think Armageddon is most fitting in this case ...