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SimCorp edges back to front

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2008
... administration technology feels the pressure from managers and compliance groups. "This is a huge opportunity, the volatility in the market is stress testing systems just through volume. Secondly, the regulators will be driving more compliance and so ...

Fear brings opportunity for the wise

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2008
... buying opportunities to the market. According to the report, the most widely used measure of fear in markets is the volatility index, which spiked a freefall on January 22. These capitulation sell-offs denote a sign that the market had bottomed, and ...

QIC tops up Pengana mandate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2008
QIC has boosted its mandate to Pengana Capital's Global Volatility Fund by $111.5 million, three months after it gave the fund an initial $167 million fund injection. QIC now has $278.5 million invested in the Global Volatility strategy after the firm's ...

ING IM and Credit Agricole win $1.1b Philippine mandate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2008
... absolute return of eight per cent floor limit on annual returns (net of fees) and a seven per cent limit on portfolio volatility. Investing abroad was necessary, Garcia said, due to the limited investment opportunities in the Philippines. He said ING ...

Fortune favours the prudent

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2008
... evaluate their options, and realign their investment strategies to match their governance arrangements. Share market volatility coupled with the ongoing contagion of the US sub-prime crisis has increased the short-term risk in the least few months. However ...

JPMorgan Chase launches IPO STRATAS

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2008
... generate strong investor interest. "Clearly investors at this point in time are hesitant to enter the market given the volatility, but we see this as a great time to get into the market because it is 20-25 per cent lower than it was three months ago," ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2008
... and Rio up considerably. "A lot of the index move is coming from those two stocks," he added. "There's still a lot of volatility around, some pretty big intraday swings." At 1203 AEDT, Rio Tinto was up 65 cents to $123.65 and its predator BHP Billiton ...

Schroders shielded from LPT burnout

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2008
... be as defensive as we thought possible across out portfolios," he said. But through the vortex of the current market volatility, one thing is certain - investors with government bonds in their portfolios will be ahead of the pack in garnering safe, healthy ...

More bulls than bears

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2008
... year. Respondents from the US, Japan and Europe agreed corporate earnings would be lower than previous years and market volatility would increase. However, 69 per cent of Australian investors identified the Australian economy as earlier in the economic ...

Investing in BRIC, food, feed and fuel

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2008
... diversify their portfolio while being protected by a 100 per cent NAB capital guarantee at maturity. "With current market volatility, the longer investment time frame of the Keystone II Funds would suit investors looking to gain exposure to these markets ...