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Retail investors buy hybrids despite dangers

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2012
While non-retail investors avoid buying hybrid securities, retail investors and their advisers chase after the alluring high yields of these complex products without seriously considering the high level of risks involved, according to an industry professional. ...

Alternatives need new thinking: QIC

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012
Too many investors have been trying to "have their cake and eat it too" by attempting to use alternatives to chase higher returns and gain diversification in down markets, according to one manager. "The more you're going for those juicy returns, the ...

Chinese pension fund awards global mandates

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2012
... Fund (NSSF) announced the appointments yesterday, which included AMP Capital for listed real-estate management. JPMorgan Chase & Co, Lombard Odier, Neuberger Berman and Schroders were given a broad mandate to invest in multiple asset classes, according ...

Lost

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2012
"I'm in a place where I don't know where I am!" -Homer Simpson I have to give it to Homer. He cut to the chase and burped out what every economist and financial market expert are afraid to admit these days - that we simply don't know. Ergo (sounds sophisticated ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2012
... points, or 0.3 per cent, at 4,118.3. US stocks broke a six-day losing streak Friday, helped by better-than-feared JPMorgan Chase results that bared a $US5.8 billion ($A5.74 billion) loss on its bungled London derivatives trading operation. At the close ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUN 2012
... stimulus plan for the eurozone economy. Major banks led the rise, shrugging off ratings downgrades from Moody's: JPMorgan Chase added 1.6 per cent; Bank of America 1.4 percent; Citigroup 0.5 percent; and Morgan Stanley 1.4 percent. Goldman Sachs though ...

Three more days of guessing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2012
... higher. Then again, they produced their ratings before Spain asked for the 100 bil hangman's rope. Egan Jones cut to the chase and downgraded Spain from B to CCC+ (junk). Hello vicious circle. Another five weeks of uncertainty would certainly suck Italy ...

APRA empowered to chase rogue superfund directors

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAY 2012
The Lower House of Parliament has passed legislation that will give the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority greater powers to pursue "rogue superfund directors". The Superannuation Legislation Amendment (Trustee Obligations and Prudential Standards) ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2012
... stalemate and Spain's banking problems drove new fears about the strength of the eurozone. Meanwhile turmoil at JPMorgan Chase over its $US2 billion derivatives loss announced last week kept US bank shares under pressure. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ...

JPMorgan execs to resign over US$2bn trading loss

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2012
Three JPMorgan Chase executives will resign this week following a US$2bn trading loss of synthetic credit securities, according to reports out of New York. The Wall Street Journal has named Ina Drew, chief investment officer and head of the risk-management ...