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Instos should reconsider hedging strategies: PIMCO

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2016
... mitigating downside risks is vital," Ryan said. "In terms of performance improvement by reducing risk, those numbers are pretty big. You don't want to say that it's flawed but if you've got an efficiency gain there of 150 bps that's a big number." The ...

Super and innovation: a glass half full

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2016
... whole innovation story for super because of cheque size and lack of funds management skills," Ferris said. "That's changing pretty fast and that's a good sign. At the larger end of funding for innovative middle-sized larger corporations the situation ...

Value stocks at inflection point: Perennial

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2016
... earnings were down 5% that was as much a function of volumes and air fares being lower in dollar terms. Tourism bit has been pretty important in the pick-up of the non-mining part of the economy," Bruce said. In May last year Perennial created the listed ...

Super inefficiencies coming to the fore

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2016
... superannuation system is to provide income in retirement, the case for diverting some of our savings to pay for insurance is pretty weak. Yes, insurance may provide income to some people in particular circumstances but it absolutely certainly detracts ...

Millennials face gender inequality shock

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2016
... meeting and it's assumed she'll take the minutes or she's asked to get the coffee or the water, all those examples are still pretty rife and not just in financial services, but in a lot of organisations," she said. "So you get this real shock between ...

Combination of fiscal and monetary policy essential for Japan

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2016
... need for more data or a reassessment on the ability of negative rates to achieve the banks desired outcome. "The market is pretty split on what they're going to say, some think that they could just be looking for more data, particularly now that the ...

Sell everything (again?)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2016
... correction. According to 'The Economist magazine, equities are the only game in town because "the returns in cash and bonds are pretty dismal". Let me add moral hazard to this. Years of central bank salvation from nasty corrections have conditioned investors ...

Morphic fund added to wraps

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2016
... enduring," Lowenstein said. "Morphic explores an all cap, all country universe of investable opportunities, which is a pretty wide field of securities. It is therefore important that we are able to empirically separate hype from real change, and thus ...

Transparency key for sophisticated investment

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2016
... comes off. Cygura is an electronic registry, it's more robust," Tilse said. "Once the investor uploads their details it's pretty much taken care of from that point which smooths the process for everybody, but the best thing is the investor knows exactly ...

Hedge funds battle identity crisis

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2016
... "true alternatives" has not been fully realised. "If you look at the correlations between hedge fund indices, which are a pretty good proxy for the average hedge fund, the correlation is running at about 80 to 90% with equities. Now that kind of correlation ...