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BTIM remodels AQR mandate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2008
... those strategies within its global equity funds, with the exception of regionally specific funds. "Unprecedented macro volatility and the rising costs of implementing these derivative strategies has meant AQR's underlying stock selection skills have ...

Faster than the speed of fright

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2008
... time when the wealth management industry is looking at technology that will allow them faster response times to market volatility but with minimum interruption to their day-to-day operations. More importantly, it should be at a cost that falls within ...

First Quadrant taps global macro trends to gain 12pc

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2008
... First Quadrant returned 12 per cent in the three months to September by taking a contrarian view on how to exploit volatility in equities, debt and currency markets. The California-based manager, represented locally by Affiliated Managers Group (AMG) ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2008
... kind of across the board. "BHP and Rio are off today, but there are a couple of positive areas. "There's all kinds of volatility buzzing around the market." Resource giants BHP Billiton and its rival Rio Tinto both dropped, with BHP down eight cents ...

Smith leaves GSJBW property fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2008
... and key person risk also has increased significantly at a time when the A-REIT sector is experiencing unprecedented volatility," said Peter Ward, S&P Fund Services analyst. A spokesperson from Goldman Sachs JBWere Asset Management said the real estate ...

Main Street is burning

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 NOV 2008
... trading day after the weekend G20 Summit down by more than 2 per cent. While the magnitude of last night's losses and volatility was benign relative to the daily drops investors have grown accustomed to, Citigroup's announcement made tangible the nasty ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2008
... dropped 57 cents, or 2.46 per cent, to $22.63. Wall Street had ended a turbulent week with another astonishing show of volatility Friday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 337.94, or 3.82 per cent, to 8,497.31.

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2008
... points, or 1.46 per cent, to 3,726.0. NEW YORK - Wall Street has ended a turbulent week with another astonishing show of volatility Friday, with stocks plunging, recovering and then plunging again as investors absorbed another wave of downbeat economic ...

G20 to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2008
... depth and duration of the global recession. But even if a plan were hatched an implemented tomorrow, financial market volatility will continue in the months to come. The bad news will not immediately go away just because of a G20 imprimatur on a G20 ...

US resi housing collapse hits CalPERS

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2008
... pragmatic about the ups and downs of the market and is holding on to most of its assets in a bid to ride out the current volatility. "This portfolio reflects the realities of today's market and accurately depicts readjustments of price and risk," said ...