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MAX Awards to showcase innovation in financial services sales and marketing

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2015
... Advertising Campaign of the Year - Trade Division Nikko AM - New Asia Fund Perpetual - Bringing you true value PIMCO - The New Neutral Platinum AM - mFund T. Rowe Price - Global Equity Integrated Campaign of the Year Challenger - Annuities Commbank - ...

US golden opportunity for listed infrastructure

ALEX BURKE, LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
... Financial Standard that the strategy had been overweight in pipeline companies, but that it has now changed its position to neutral, following the fall in oil prices. "What we're seeing now is that the [pipeline companies'] stocks have underperformed ...

Running on neutral

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
... with the American Association of Individual Investors' (AAII) just concluded "Sentiment Survey" (20 May) that showed "Neutral sentiment, expectations that stock prices will stay essentially unchanged over the next six months, rose 2.9 percentage points ...

Cheap talk, cheaper money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2015
... markets over the next six months." The talk. Based on AAII's sampling of responses, this is because: "Gone from bullish to neutral largely due to the pending increase of interest rates by the Fed." "My guess is that the market is overdue for a 10% to ...

Europe and Japan becoming preferred equity markets

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 13 APR 2015
... adjusted accordingly, with Japan and Europe being given "Heavy" equities allocations; US and UK markets have been shifted to "Neutral". "The Global Investment Group has been debating for some time when the conditions would fall into place for such a ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2015
... kept on hold. Offshore markets provided positive leads but CMC Markets chief market analyst Ric Spooner said it was a neutral day without any conviction for investors. "Since the RBA meeting the market has been on standby and there has been a trading ...

ESG becoming essential to insto alternative investment

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2015
... motivations for considering) ESG criteria went beyond ethical concerns: 90% of participants felt ESG criteria had a positive or neutral effect on returns, while over half (57%) believed it directly increased risk-adjusted returns. "It is encouraging ...

Fixed income offers little equity risk protection: CFM

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2015
... year, it blends three quantitative algorithm strategies comprising a long-term trend following strategy, an equity market neutral strategy and a strategy designed to harvest risk premia in capital markets. Jordan said the strategy poses an attractive ...

Divestment more political than financial: PWC

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2015
The main impact of institutional investor divestment has been political not financial, said PWC in an asset consulting newsletter released yesterday. "Unless the size of the divestment is substantial, it may not impact the share price of the company ...

ASFA supports ASIC electronic disclosure consultation

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2015
... (PDSs). At the same time, ASFA cautioned that any regulatory provisions for electronic disclosures should be "technology-neutral" and flexible enough to accommodate different types of consumers. They said this is so that "the financial services industry ...