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FEATURE: Defending wealth

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2015
... your contributions at lower prices when markets correct. But when you're in or near retirement, when you get market correction and you're overexposed to equities it can be a very bad thing." When investors approach decumulation, Howes advocates what ...

Instos doing little to protect portfolios

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
Global institutional investors are unperturbed by the threat of a market correction and continue to pile into equities. That's according to new investor behaviour research by State Street Global Advisors (SSGA), which conducted the research in January ...

Review portfolios in global bond market sell-off

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2015
... it's up to financial advisers to seek out the right ones for their clients." Green added bonds have had an overdue correction in some countries, whilst other countries appear to have had a more knee-jerk reaction. He said the bond market could have reached ...

Retirees can increase their withdrawal rate: Milliman

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2015
... that 4% is not going to be sufficient or it's going to run out sooner than it would in a market environment where the correction happens later in my retirement," Matterson said. The Milliman analysis indicates an increased retiree withdrawal rate lies ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2015
... points, to close at 27,577.34. "But if the data is worse than expected, we could see global stocks suffer a deeper correction as the market shifts toward a deflationary story." Chinese shares benefited from hopes for policies to boost the economy after ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
... 4,229.27, after plunging more than four per cent the previous session. "Shanghai continued to fall today because the market correction is not over yet," said Zheshang Securities analyst Zhang Yanbing. "Markets are a little tired," Wayne Wilbanks, chief ...

May Day mayday

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2015
... fallen three days before May, totalling 1.8% and 2.5%, respectively. Is this the beginning of the end? The start of the correction everybody and his uncle and his uncle's dog have been waiting for. Looking at the goings-on on Wall Street, it would seem ...

Cheap talk, cheaper money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2015
... due to the pending increase of interest rates by the Fed." "My guess is that the market is overdue for a 10% to 20% correction." "Valuation for stocks seems to be on the high side." Three perfectly good reasons for investors to be feeling what they're ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2015
... and then things looking like they will fall apart, policy makers will merely step in to make sure we don't see a deep correction," he said. Among miners, BHP Billiton had added 42 cents to $31.09 and Rio Tinto had gained nine cents to $58.68. But iron ...

Fixed income offers little equity risk protection: CFM

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2015
... vulnerable. Jordan believes that in this environment, alternatives offer the only genuine defence against a market correction. "In a world where you've lost the ability to diversify into fixed interest, you need some muscle in infrastructure, private ...