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Banks will always take more risk: APRA exec

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2016
... commercial real estate agents. These are the vectors of distress that actually cause problems for the banking system historically," Ellis said. Littrell added that APRA was dialing up its commercial real estate supervisory business.

Sentiment recovers but cash still king

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUN 2016
... investors are still hoarding cash and it's by far the most common recent investment among the mass affluent. "Despite the historically low interest rate environment, Australians are still heavily invested in cash holding a record $976.7 billion in cash ...

AMP Capital partners to launch first active infra ETF

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2016
... Keegan said. "Both these funds give investors exposure outside of the Australian market in asset classes that have historically been proven performers when interest rates are low. Investors will be able to access a full portfolio of diversified exposure ...

Global equities tease income opportunity

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAY 2016
... The paper said investors should consider global equity income strategies if they wish to escape poor returns from historically low interest rates and diversify their portfolios. Often favoured for their regular payments of dividends and possible tax ...

Factor investing sees new customised approach

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2016
... companies in emerging markets who also have the best ESG posture, something which Hunstad says tends to do "very well historically." He added value factor investing is cheap by definition and is as cheap now as it has been in 20 years or since the dot ...

Impact investing on insto agenda

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2016
... specialist at RobecoSAM Private Equity, Silva Dezelan, said discussions with pension funds about impact investing had historically been difficult because they were often seen as finance-first investors whereby performance or financial returns formulated ...

Further monetary stimulus risks woeful asset returns

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2016
... Edinburgh-based fund manager said asset returns were likely to be much lower in the coming years than they have been historically. Under its own modelling, Standard Life Investments believes global real GDP growth of 1% combined with 1% inflation and ...

Higher recession risk creates opportunity in large miners: Lazard

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2016
... the style tends to be less effective during times of market distortions and that the highest future returns have historically been on offer when the performance differential between value and growth investing is at its greatest. Some examples include ...

Milliman calls out "failures of diversification"

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2016
... Milliman pointed to defensive alternatives such as Commodity Trading Advisers (CTAs), or managed futures, which have "historically provided a negative correlation to equity markets in systemic market stress periods." For example, the Barclay CTA (US$) ...

Social media ETF proves possibilities are endless

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 APR 2016
... posts are most likely to impact collective opinion. It also identifies and scores which members of the community have historically been the most successful in their forecasting accuracy. The data is filtered through an analytics model comprised of patented ...