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SSgA warns of equity market complacency

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2014
... likely to experience a re-rating. "If you look at our market, all the risk is dominated by the banks and the resources. Pretty much two thirds of the risk comes from those broad sectors. The drivers of return for the banks are housing performance and ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2014
... basically we are seeing ongoing support for the yield stocks. The big four banks are up," Spooner said. "The market seems to be pretty comfortable about NAB's result, which has supported the atmospherics." Spooner said the local market appeared to be ...

Caterpillar economy turns into a butterfly

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2014
... bright and beautiful with rosy earnings from construction equipment manufacturer, Caterpillar, turning Wall Street into a pretty butterfly. Not only that... here's what Bloomberg recommended I read next "based on my reading history", U.S. Stocks Rise ...

Active management offers little value: Towers Watson

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2014
... being given away each year in costs. That's a gargantuan figure," he said. "Are we getting value from that? I think it's pretty obvious that we are not getting aggregate value from that amount." To combat this Ford called for the industry to focus less ...

Bespoke approach key to keeping mandates: Acadian

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014
... them to make it a reality. This means building long-term, collaborative relationships with super funds. "I think it's a pretty powerful story. We've got a couple of clients like that locally and many globally. It's more of a consulting, bespoke solution ...

Hot property on notice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
... less favourable conditions - for instance, at higher interest rates or during a period of weaker economic conditions." I'm pretty (pretty not 100%) sure that the banks are aware of this and are actively engaged in their own prudential risk management. ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2014
... inflation easing to a four-month low, fuelling the case for a further easing in monetary policy. "The markets are behaving in a pretty orderly manner," said SMBC Nikko Securities general manager of equities Hiroichi Nishi. "The Nikkei might test the ...

PROFILE: Folkestone MD Greg Paramor

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2014
... company. Growth Equities Mutual (GEM) was founded in 1981 and, as it turns out, the timing of that first investment was pretty good. "It was a rather opportunistic venture," Paramor says. "We launched it at the start of an unbundling process for the ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2014
... chief market analyst Ric Spooner said the local bourse had made a positive start. "It's quite a positive start given a pretty modest lead from US markets and given also concerns about what's going on in Ukraine," Mr Spooner said. "We appear to have put ...

RBA to business: release the animal in you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2014
... be in the top drawer remain hostage to uncertainty about the future pace of demand." "That's actually nothing new. It's pretty normal at this point of the cycle. There is always a period in which people can see that many of the conditions for expansion ...