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Is gold on the ceiling for Australian investors?

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2016
... gold was the fund's "bricks and mortar." "Over short periods we like gold because it's volatile and it's uncorrelated to equities and bonds; and it tends to be mean reverting. Over longer periods it protects our investors from monetary inflation, it ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2016
... and certain types of bonds, it will often prove too short a time period to counteract the volatility associated with equities," they added. Even more worrying, less than a fifth of investors said they held investments for five years, and around a third ...

Advisers need to leverage enormous ETF winds

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2016
... playing out for international diversification. Howie said Australian retail investors, who generally had a large local equities allocation, were increasing their exposure to global equities through ETFs because the investment vehicle had become much ...

Northern Trust hires CBA equities research director

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2016
... appointed a new research analyst. Ben Brownette joins Northern Trust from CBA, where he was a director and analyst on the equities research team. Before that, he was a senior analyst at Aegis Equities Research and an analyst at Boston Avenue Capital. ...

Synchron debuts adviser investment solution

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2016
... risk-based portfolios with different weightings to defensive and growth assets, and five sector portfolios representing global equities, Australian equities - income, fixed interest and listed property and infrastructure. Lonsec Investment Solutions ...

Absolute returns no longer the domain of instos

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2016
... strategies in a balanced portfolio. This is the thought of Henderson Global Investors' head of alternative Australian equities, David Rosenbloom, who adds absolute return investing is no longer solely the domain of sophisticated investors such as institutions ...

Hedge funds battle identity crisis

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2016
... indices, which are a pretty good proxy for the average hedge fund, the correlation is running at about 80 to 90% with equities. Now that kind of correlation is not an alternative and that's a bit of a failing on the industry's part," Dunn says. "Providing ...

Fund assets surge while market shrinks: FSC/Morningstar

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2016
... the report continued. The report also noted Australia's fee competitiveness in the managed funds industry, with global equities trusts managed in Australia having 20% lower fees on average than other jurisdictions. Global property securities trusts were ...

New income fund launches

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2016
... and charges. It seeks to preserve capital and manages volatility to a target of less than half the volatility of global equities over any three-year period. It also pays income on a monthly basis. The fund will be managed by Peter Fitzgerald, Ian Pizer ...

Advisory firm appoints new CIO

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2016
... Private Wealth. At BT Bolger's responsibilities included the oversight of strategic investment, asset allocation and equities research as well as portfolio management of a range of diversified investment portfolios. Prior to BT he was head of research ...