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Challenger results prove annuity winner

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2011
... been attributed to increased advertising marketing and distribution activity and an outlook for ongoing equity market volatility, which drove organic retail sales of annuity products," said Stevens. The strong results have prompted predictions for next ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2011
... moment, we're kind of at the mercy of global equity markets," Mr Judge said. "There is a little bit of a return to the volatility and choppiness we saw last week." Wall Street lost four per cent overnight on new worries about a second recession in the ...

ASX CEO search underway as results announced

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2011
... Hiom. A pipeline of new derivatives products will also be launch in the next few months. Inevitably talk turn to market volatility and how long Elstone believes it will impact the local and global economy. "Volatility is probably going to be the new ...

Super beats term deposits: AMP

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2011
... yesterday, Dunn said that the super industry had outperformed term deposits over the long and short term, despite market volatility. "If you look back at returns, the super industry has delivered over past 15 years, they are more than 4% above of the ...

Prime Super buys hospital carparks for stable revenue, growth

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2011
... return with the stability behind it to help underwrite the return of the fund as a whole," he said. "It doesn't have the volatility that the equity side has and that's what we're looking for." Baird said that Prime Super had spare capacity to invest ...

Principal Global Investors UK move

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2011
... unconstrained and benchmark unaware approach. "We have PGI Equities, our internal boutique, which is benchmark aware, very low volatility and risk controlled strategy. Couple this with Origin's which is the opposite and we have strong products in emerging ...

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' ...

Fund managers beat the index but only just

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2011
... better than the S&P/ASX 300 Index return of 3.0%. The figures don't extend to August, which is when the wild swings of volatility hit global and domestic share markets. David Carruthers, principal of Mercer, said the average manager's performance was ...

Advisers prep for 'back-to-basics' investing

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2011
... Standard. Dowd said that it is becoming clearer that since the GFC many clients are demonstrating more tolerance towards volatility and appreciate that 'back-to-basics' investing is about the mid- to longer-term and markets do recover.

Market dislocation shifts share trade to dark pools, ETFs

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2011
Trading volumes spiked at dark pools and exchange traded funds after record volatility hit global equity and bond markets last week. Sam Macqueen, director of block trading venue provider Liquidnet Australia, said the daily average volume of trade in ...