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Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 JAN 2011
... wildly". "Until we get a little bit more certainty on the domestic and global growth outlook we'll still see a lot more volatility," he said. Mr Carr said he expected the local unit would move up over 99 US cents once the European session gets underway ...

Hedge research warns against poor risk analytics

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 24 JAN 2011
... Perspective on the Road Ahead ", also found that the percentage of investors saying they invest mainly to lower portfolio volatility rose to 18 per cent from 8 per cent a year earlier. Stuart James, senior investment manager at Aberdeen Asset Management ...

ARIA boosts property sustainability

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 21 JAN 2011
... returns-for-risk across assets, industries, regions and corporations," according to a fund statement. "The impact on volatility will be critical because policy responses to climate change will bring costs and opportunities forward and increase investment ...

Value a plus

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 JAN 2011
... offer an average yield of only 1.8 per cent. Barring exogenous shocks (perhaps, a Spanish default?) that could send volatility soaring and shatter investor confidence, sub-par global economic growth should be no hindrance to further gains in international ...

AvSuper awards mandate to IFP

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JAN 2011
... competitive advantage and a dominant intangible asset should earn good long-term returns with a below average absolute volatility," according to a fund statement. Griffiths said the fund has five international equities managers managing its global shares ...

Investors tap emerging market debt

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 17 JAN 2011
... relatively high yields, all make emerging market bonds an attractive investment proposition, while their comparatively low volatility only adds to the appeal. Murphy said there is a "pretty strong thesis" that investors can receive an added pickup from ...

Year of the Bunny

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 JAN 2011
... think 2010 was a challenging year, early indications are that financial markets are in for another period of increased volatility in this, the year twenty eleven. Yes Virginia, brace for more hops, skips and falls - quite fitting that twenty eleven is ...

HIP stands firm on investment strategy

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 16 DEC 2010
... will maintain its long term focus and continue to address super as a long term investment while mitigating short term volatility. "Conservative options have performed but that may not necessarily be the case going forward," said Bernays. "It is de-correlation ...

Move beyond benchmarks: GMO

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 10 DEC 2010
... It's not rocket science," he explained. Montier also criticised the current paradigm where risk is measured through volatility. "The idea that risk is volatility is completely wrong, and yet everybody still uses volatility as their measure of risk," ...

RMBS under the spotlight

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 2 DEC 2010
... Australian housing has become a bubble, various RMBS features provide downside risk mitigation against potential house price volatility, " said Rob Meade, PIMCO's head of portfolio management in Australia. Meanwhile Perpetual made a call last year on ...