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GSAM offers EM debt to retail

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2013
Goldman Sachs Asset Management announced today the launch of the Growth and Emerging Markets Debt Local Fund. The new product seeks to achieve income and capital growth in the long term by investing in bonds issued by emerging market countries, in their ...

Temper, temper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2013
Can you feel it, can you feel it... can you feel it? Darn right, Virginia! Everywhere you look there seems to be that general sense of optimism that's permeating through every nook and cranny of the financial market world. Seems our work here is done. ...

Retail investors need new defensive investments

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2013
Australian retail investors should consider managed credit funds, as term deposit rates are set to drop, said head of credit markets at AMP Capital Jeff Brunton. A global low interest rate environment will eventually force Australian banks to pay out ...

Super fund return expectations unrealistic

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2013
Superannuation funds expecting to achieve 3-4% above inflation on their typical balanced options are likely to be disappointed, according to Credit Suisse Private Banking's David McDonald. The head of strategy and research for Australia told journalists ...

$1tr flows into US bond funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2013
Despite experts warning of a bond bubble, US mutual fund investors poured US$304 billion into bond funds last year. According to figures from the US Investment Company Institute, the bond fund inflows trounced the $153 billion that was withdrawn from ...

"Others" are still fearful

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2013
Phew! What a relief it is, don't you think? A few more weeks (ok, ok, maybe months) of continued equity market gains and I would have yelled, "irrational exuberance!" Sure, sure, I've been trumpeting the improvements in the major and lesser economies ...

Australia becomes fourth largest pension pool

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2013
Australia now has the world's fourth largest pension pool after superannuation assets relative to GDP rose to 101% in 2012, according to a Towers Watson report. According to the Towers Watson Global Pension Assets Study, Australian superannuation assets ...

Frontier markets poised for strong 2013

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2013
Frontier markets have begun 2013 strongly and will outperform their emerging markets counterparts over the next 12 months, according to HSBC Global Research. The MSCI Frontier markets index - which includes economies such as Nigeria, Qatar and Vietnam ...

2013 a turning point for world economy: Clime

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2013
Significant improvements in each of the world's most anxiously watched markets have prompted a dramatic lift in investor sentiment, and could signal a major turning point for the global economy, according to Clime chief investment officer John Abernathy. ...

There's no bubble in bond markets: Tyndall AM

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2013
Tyndall Asset Management head of fixed income Roger Bridges has stressed that there is definitely not a bubble forming in the bond market. Current high prices and low yields have raised fears of capital losses within the asset class during 2013 but ...