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HSBC pitches low vol strategy to instos

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
Investors with a long term focus could benefit from a strategy that targets low volatility at a moment when it is expected to raise, HSBC global asset management's head of global equities Angus Parker said. HSBC's Global Low Vol strategy sits within ...

FEATURE: Australia's other love affair

FINANCIAL STANDARD  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
Property investment is tangible, attractive and easy to understand for the average investor. There has arguably never been so much discussion around property with some experts saying Australia is going through a housing bubble fuelled by low interest ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
The Australian market looks set to open a touch lower, as gains on Wall Street offset losses in the local market on Thursday. At 0648 AEST on Friday, the June share price index futures contract was down two points at 5,615. US stocks have pushed higher ...

Bond bears out of hibernation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
If even a dog can have his day, why not bears? Can't blame 'em Virginia, it's May after all - that month of the year when you, I and Irene are supposed to "sell and go away". But, but... but it may be more than the seasonality this May that's' taking ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
The Australian market looks set to open lower following losses on Wall Street. At 0655 AEST on Wednesday, the June share price index futures contract was down 50 points at 5,754. US stocks tumbled overnight on worries about higher oil prices and tensions ...

PIMCO sees opportunity in EU bonds

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
Low bond yields in Europe could be a buying opportunity even if the situation in Greece adds volatility to the market, PIMCO chief investment officer of asset allocation and real return Mihir Worah said. Worah presented PIMCO's long term outlook and ...

The bad and the bad and the bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2015
It's bad, it's bad, it's bad you know it. They say bad news come in threes - we've got all three at the end of last week. Greece running out of money and reform deal still looks unlikely heading into its meeting with 'the institutions' four days and ...

Funds wrestling with liquidity problem

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2015
Future Fund managing director David Neal has expressed concern at the lack of safe, liquid investments available for institutional investors to deploy their vast amounts of cash. Asked at an Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) Investment ...

'Brexit' betting booths now taking bets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2015
Call it what you will -- 'patient panic' or 'patient party' - the fact is all and sundry dropped what they were doing to hear (or not hear), read (or not read) the word 'patient' from the Fed. It's there no more... with "not impatient" taking over its ...

The real problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015
It didn't happen on the night, but it happened last night. That perplexing perverse performance the financial markets gave to the deletion of the word 'patient' in the FOMC statement has gotten less perverse while we slept - the VIX index rose, so did ...