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Adjusting for adjustments

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2013
After all the build up, the anticipation and the suspense, Wall Street had only a minute reaction to the FOMC minutes. The Dow was down a little and the S&P 500 up a bit for there was hardly anything new to inspire that animal spirit in you, I and Irene ...

Dismiss fixed income at your peril

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2013
Investors, particularly those in or approaching retirement, should be wary of ignoring fixed income and other income producing assets in the 'great rotation' out of cash and into equities, according to Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) executive ...

Retirees warned: beware the 'great rotation'

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2013
A global move from bonds to equities could see Australian retirees swimming against the current, according to a new paper by AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM). The paper, entitled 'The Great Rotation', analyses the potential for a mass global move from ...

Ghosts? What ghosts?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2013
What the...? Wall Streeters must have smoked or drank some heavy stuff ahead of America's 4th of July holiday celebrations. All three of America's benchmark equity indices - the Dow, the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq - closed higher while most other equity ...

No need to fear 1994-style crash

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2013
The US Federal Reserve will get their policy action right, and there is no need to fear a 1994-style crash in bonds, according to Fidelity Worldwide Investment head of quantitative research David Buckle. Global bonds and equity markets have shown signs ...

Still in Goldilocks land

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2013
This is it! The is the time, this is the moment, this is the week when the most powerful man in the world set the record straight on this whole Fed tapering/unwinding/scaling back business. Can you hear that too, Virginia? The financial markets' collective ...

Sinking emerging markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUN 2013
We waited...and waited...and waited. All of last week we waited to get a better handle on whether it's gonna be taper on or taper off, after the latest update on the US labour market. But nah. While Wall Street rallied following the release of the US ...

The death of QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2013
"The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself." - Publilius Syrus (Maxim 511) What parent would name his child Publilius? But Pub - the Assyrian who wrote mimes in Latin during the 1 BC - as he was fondly called could have been describing ...

Markets poised on knife-edge: Standard Life Investments

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2013
After the recent rally in prices, global equity markets are poised on a knife-edge and need signs of further fundamental or monetary support if the performance is to continue, according to Standard Life Investments head of global strategy Andrew Milligan. ...

Downswing in bond yields clear path for Absolute Return Fixed Income

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2013
The imminent end of the bond bull-market means now is the time for investors to consider absolute return fixed income strategies, according to GAM head of structured investments Rossen Djounov. Visiting Australia from London to promote the GAM Fixed ...