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Higher US rates will test investors' nerves: QIC

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2015
Interest rates in the United States are expected to increase over the coming months, a change that will deliver higher returns, but will also test investors' nerves, QIC said. QIC is anticipating that the term premium, the compensation required by investors ...

Green bonds set to soar despite policy

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2015
... number of green bonds is very limited," Hayes said. Green bond issues are led from Europe and increasingly in the United States: "US municipalities have started to tap that market driven by investor demand," he said. Speaking about regulatory uncertainty ...

Strong passive flows force managers to lower fees

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2015
... Casey Quirk has found. Passive strategies accounted for 93% of total net new flows at registered products in the United States during 2014, a survey of 110 European, US and Asia Pacific investment management firms found. At the same time, aggregate average ...

Van Eck lists gold miners ETF on ASX

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2015
... Mining (5.27%) and Agnico-Eagle Mines (5.22%). The country exposure gave Canada 54.5% of the portfolio, 13.5% to the United States, 10% to South Africa, 7.3% to Australia and 4.9% to China. "Many investors prefer to purchase gold miners' equities as ...

Joining AIIB unlocks billions of infra investment

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2015
... Australia to international regulators, pension funds and representatives from leading global economic forums in the United States and UK who are also seeking financing solutions to long term infrastructure investments," Collins said. There is an estimated ...

ANALYSIS: The rise of the periphery

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
... investment world, it is easy to think of Europe as one large, uniform region. Other areas of similar size, like the United States, Australia and even China to some extent, work like that. But Europe doesn't, and never has. Maybe this is the reason why ...

APAC fastest growing region for millionaire investors

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2015
... stockmarket; Australia is still among the world's top 10 countries for the number of HNW in a list that also includes the United States, Japan, Germany, China, United Kingdom, France, Switzerland, Canada and Italy. Ultra-HNW population in APAC grew by ...

Mi problema su problema

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2015
... today's globally integrated financial markets, foreign shocks have the potential to disrupt financial stability in the United States," Lew said in testimony to the House of Representatives financial services committee." Thank you Yahoo News. And then ...

Australia's "irrational exuberance" an economic risk: PIMCO

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015
... "will react faster and more vigorously to a shock in asset prices or mortgage rates" than their counterparts in the United States. "This could result in a feedback loop where falling asset values induce further deleveraging," PIMCO said. "Based on our ...

Rising bond yields a blip

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2015
... recession is quite high," Roberts said. Roberts added his view that the rise in bond yields is a also blip in the United States where the Federal Reserve continues to prepare markets for the first official interest rate increase in a decade. He said ...