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Insto clients forecast a low growth world economy

RACHEL DAVIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 NOV 2011
... coming year. "The biggest opportunities seen by our clients are skilled 'alpha' strategies, fixed income credit strategies hedged into AUD, infrastructure, Australian shares paying high/fully franked dividends and gold," said Wilson.

AMP Capital rides high on global infra demand

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2011
... access AMP Capital's global infrastructure securities capability via the AMP Capital Global Infrastructure Securities Fund (hedged or unhedged).

ETF markets August fall

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 15 SEP 2011
... dollar value of $94 million. The report identified a monthly trend of investors switching to lower fee beta exposure and a hedged gold exposure with strong trading activity record for the precious metals. "Continued strong trading activity in precious ...

AXA winds up billion dollar funds

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2011
... AXA will also begin winding up its property securities funds including the Wholesale Global Property Securities Fund - hedged with $129 million FUM, the Wholesale Global Property Securities Fund - unhedged with $128 million FUM and the Wholesale Australian ...

Asian small caps as emerging markets go mainstream

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2011
... and Indian Rupee," the report said, which acted as a headwind to performance. Most emerging market and Asia funds are not hedged, causing the problem. Sweeney said it is very difficult and quite expensive to hedge emerging market funds. "It's hard to ...

Market woes cause adviser headache

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2011
... annual report, but Spooner said this would not be a problem. "The income stream is not cyclical and their debt costs are hedged," he said. Invocare listed $643,000 in interest rate swap contracts as a cash flow hedge in 2010 and had revenue of $272.6 ...

MTAA Super strikes back against claims of unhedging

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2011
... MTAA Super chief executive Michael Delaney. Regarding whether it was unhedged at the time, Delaney said, "The Fund was hedged during the financial crisis and as a result when the Australian dollar plummeted it - like all funds who were similarly hedged ...

Ratings wrap

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2011
... 'NEW' rating from S&P. The product from US-based AQR is new to the Australian market. Hunter Hall's Global Ethical Trust Hedged Fund, launched earlier this year to provide investors with direct hedged exposure to the Hunter Hall Ethical Trust, earned ...

S&P awards three stars to new Hunter Hall fund

RACHEL DAVIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUN 2011
Standard & Poor's (S&P) has assigned a three-star 'NEW' rating to the Hunter Hall Global Ethical Trust Hedged Fund. Hunter Hall's new Global Ethical Trust Hedged Fund provides investors with direct hedged exposure to the Hunter Hall Ethical Trust which ...

BetaShares introduces gold ETF

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2011
ETF provider BetaShares Capital has launched a hedged gold bullion product on the ASX, which aims to protect investors from fluctuations on the Australian and US dollar exchange rate. "In the last 2 years to April 2011, the S&P/ASX 200 delivered an ...