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CAAM and Soc Gen reveal Amundi

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2009
... insto mandates and retail interest in the firm, he said. "We've been successful in attracting mandates [this year] in volatility and global inflation linked bonds, and global diversified fixed income. "All of our existing global bond mandates have given ...

Challenger takes annuities to platforms

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2009
... product feature more heavily in portfolio construction. Advisers are becoming more familiar with their attributes of zero volatility, capital and income guarantees and no management fees, said Howes. Chris Freeman, head of BT Wrap, said demand from cautious ...

Pleasant and nasty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2009
... about market indicators? Credit default spreads have narrowed significantly and the VIX Index - or what others call the volatility index - has fallen to its September 2008 lows. It is therefore not surprising that demand for safe-haven assets like US ...

Small caps and Asia on Auscoal radar

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2009
... fund is seeing a number of opportunities across international small cap stocks and Asia, as increased cross-sectional volatility opens the door for the fund's active managers to add alpha to their returns. "The economic downturn post the GFC has highlighted ...

Walter Scott tops S&P review

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2009
... growth peer group. All funds in the peer group produced negative returns for the three-year period to May 31, 2009, and volatility over the year, as measured by standard deviation, has picked up. Despite the difficult market conditions, all of the previous ...

SMSFs snap up blue chip shares

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2009
... sentiment are figures showing only 17 per cent of those surveyed were still expressing "extreme concern over recent market volatility". This is a decline from 33 per cent in 2008. "The shift in sentiment amongst SMSF investors will have been helped along ...

EQT and PIMCO get van Eyk tick

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2009
... Fund targets investors who want a core exposure to an "Australian biased credit driven" strategy with low levels of volatility and the potential to provide stable income over the longer term. According to a press statement, PIMCO said it believed that ...

Don't forget the economics: Macq

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2009
... strategy. David Dali, portfolio manager of the Macquarie BRIC Advantage, said emerging markets are susceptible to extreme volatility caused by macro factors such as changes in gross domestic product (GDP) and the country's ability to service its debt. ...

Property still in favour

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2009
... the total ownership level has declined from 46 per cent when the study was last conducted in 2006, following market volatility, there are signs of optimism and resilience among Australian investors, noted the ASX in a press statement.

Credit Suisse launches all-round fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2009
... seven-year term. The firm actively manages the exposures in each unit class and allocations will vary depending on market volatility. "During periods of high volatility exposure to the investment decreases and during periods of low volatility it increases," ...