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No free lunch with high conviction funds: WestLB Mellon

... we've been through in the last six weeks [the market correction] has forced a re-think of the environment we're in... volatility is not dead, it is a re-occurring event," said Hugh Hunter, WestLB Mellon's chief investment officer. Coming from London ...

IAGAM scores $250m mandate from Sunsuper

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JUN 2006
... investment portfolios is working to generate superior risk adjusted returns, while reducing our absolute level of risk and volatility. "Sunsuper's choice of IAGAM shows there are options available outside the conventional choices where organisations ...

Weekly economic round-up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 JUN 2006
... negative repercussions on corporate profitability. There are no major economic data scheduled for release this week but volatility will continue in the lead up to the Fed's 29 June FOMC meeting.

True high conviction means big positions: Peters MacGregor

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUN 2006
... now we're at a little over 38 per cent." This allocation to cash is not only a buffer in the current global market volatility, but gives the team the flexibility to buy their into their key investment cases at a favourable time should the market jitters ...

OptiMix adds geared version of MTM fund

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUN 2006
... that it says is aimed at superannuation funds looking for mid to long-term investments with greater leverage but less volatility than single manager funds. The fund is 50 per cent geared and will be managed on a daily basis by ING's own investment management ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUN 2006
... index ended at 15,234.42, down 387.02 points. WELLINGTON - New Zealand shares eased slightly but failed to reflect the volatility of their offshore counterparts. The benchmark NZSX-50 index eased 12.50 points to 3600.52 on turnover worth $NZ93.7 mill ...

CSF awards $26m fixed income mandate to IXIS

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUN 2006
... built on more high yield loans in a shifting 80/20 or 20/80 allocation, and aims to deliver high returns with lower volatility through varying economic cycles. The fund's target return strategy is to outperform the three month US dollar LIBOR by 400 ...

Mining managers wary of funds fleeing

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUN 2006
... the industry has been used to," Goldsmith said. Recently, commodities in the US and Australia have seen significant volatility even in intra-day trading. According to Goldsmith, "The recent volatility in prices could be a sign of things to come." With ...

Common sense rules in portfolio construction

... 'superior' construction skills. The Sharpe Ratio measures the trade off of excess returns above cash relative to risk or volatility of the returns. "What I showed in my thesis was that given the statistical properties of returns, it's a practically useless ...

More control over currency: SSgA

... offers a 'middle ground' between active and passive currency management. It aims to deliver higher returns with reduced volatility compared to a traditional static hedge. SSgA said that the program was spurred by demand from a superannuation fund which ...