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Advisers, do not read headlines: Kerr Neilson

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... trends actually start. He recommended advisers to take a deep breath when alarming words such as global financial crisis (GFC) make the headlines. "You should be asking yourself: is there such a fundamental change to the investment environment that I ...

Federal Court finds S&P guilty in landmark ruling

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... The Federal Court ruled in favour of 12 NSW local councils who lost millions on failed investments in the aftermath of the GFC. The ruling means the councils will recover about $30 million in losses derived from complex synthetic derivatives known as ...

Dynamic approach key to low volatility investing

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
... leading proponents of the strategy have warned. Low volatility equity investing has risen in popularity in the wake of the GFC. With lower returns across asset classes, institutional investors are making use of lower volatility equity portfolios to mitigate ...

ASIC budget cuts send the wrong message: Greens

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2014
... short-sighted and will put our economy and society at further risk." Weak regulation in the financial services sector caused the GFC," he said. "By cutting ASIC's funding the government is outsourcing the professional regulation and investigation of ...

Losing shine

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2014
... Just ask the VIX index - the fear gauge - it's down to readings we haven't seen since the days of wine and roses before the GFC. Could it be that the only fear out there is the fear of missing out? That may be. But this absence of fear in the equity ...

Going solo: Australian equity houses at risk of talent exodus

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2014
... in the small cap space if teams are already appropriately aligned from a remuneration perspective," he said. "I think post-GFC there is generally a higher level of risk aversion within the industry that favours the larger houses who have the right alignment ...

Let's talk about VIX baby

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2014
... Further back, this is also the level the VIX was trading at between 2005 up to early 2007 - the time when people only know the GFC as the Geelong Football Club and not the Global Financial Crisis; the time when you, I and Irene (and even governments ...

Research houses to blame for advice catastrophes: AIOFP

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2014
... rating" culture was a major contributor to the distribution of flawed structured products leading up to and exacerbating the GFC." The association proposed that "the advice industry should be the only market stakeholder funding research houses to avoid ...

Stakeholders stage FoFA confrontation in Senate submissions

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
... protections for consumers of financial services" and added that they will help to "restore trust in the system following the post-GFC collapses in the financial services industry." Consumer protection body CHOICE strongly opposed any changes to the FoFA ...

Bored to zzz

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
... anyone forget the 48 VIX reading three years ago (European sovereign debt crisis) or the 56.7 reading in the midst of the GFC in 2009? Those were also the days when financial musers like moi have more than our fair share to muse about. Bring back those ...