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Clash of the titans on housing bubble

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 29 OCT 2010
... Australian housing has become a bubble, various RMBS features provide downside risk mitigation against potential house price volatility, " Rob Meade, PIMCO's head of portfolio management in Australia said. Meade added that he believed that the RBA would ...

Principal boutique launches currency fund

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 29 OCT 2010
... discretionary investment process that the Group uses to manage its other active absolute return portfolios. It has a target volatility of 25 per cent, managed on a three year annualised basis, with an implied return target of 17.5 per cent. "Macro Currency ...

Smaller QE2 is not all that bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2010
... "guard" the rupiah at its "fundamental" level of 8,900 to 9,300 against the dollar and buy foreign currencies to limit volatility, Governor Darmin Nasution said today. Bank Negara Malaysia Governor Zeti Akhtar Aziz told Bloomberg Television yesterday ...

MLC stars in NAB $4.2bn profit

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 OCT 2010
... 1.6 per cent to $16.6 billion, driven by the re-basing of personal banking, and from global markets and treasury as volatility reduced from 2009's high levels. NAB chief executive, Cameron Clyne, credited MLC & NAB Wealth's superannuation and insurance ...

Demystifying the "flash crash"

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2010
... algorithmic sell order in futures markets, executed by a mutual funds manager to hedge ETF exposure, was the root case of the volatility, which saw US markets drop nearly 9 per cent in a matter of minutes, resulting in the largest intraday points decline ...

FuturePlus seeks more alternatives

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
... international equities holdings. "Global listed infrastructure has beaten global equities over a very long time, and has lower volatility so it's a little bit more conservative. "And global real estate, even though it's technically a listed international ...

QIC offers instos inflation protection

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 18 OCT 2010
... protection via tailored mandates for clients. The fund, which aims to deliver inflation plus returns with significantly less volatility than traditional approaches such as inflation-linked bonds, will target returns of the Australian CPI plus 4 per cent ...

Van Eyk completes China review

NEWS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 18 OCT 2010
... review of the market. "Compared with developed equities markets, the Chinese equities market tends to exhibit higher volatility and its performance is driven more by short-term sentiment. As such, the market's performance is much harder to forecast based ...

Super funds call for new fee paradigm

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2010
... contributions). "A risk-adjusted performance fee model is proposed, with the formula behind the model based on the volatility of the portfolio and its benchmark," said Fiona Reynolds, chief executive of AIST. The association also recommends the development ...

BlackRock to develop super SMA

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 SEP 2010
... but would not be drawn on what kind of growth it is expecting from the super option. Langlands said that heightened volatility, a flight to safety and closure of some funds in the past two years has made investors - particularly in self managed superannuation ...