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Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 JUN 2014
The Australian share market is off to a mixed start for the week. Stocks seesawed in the first hour of trade as investors focused on ongoing weakness in iron ore prices and better-than-expected Chinese manufacturing data. "It will most likely be a cautious ...

Global healing?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014
... conducted by the American Association of Individual Investors (AAII). For the week ending 21 May 2014, the AAII survey found: Neutral sentiment is above 40% for the fourth consecutive week, the longest such streak since 1998. Bullish sentiment is below ...

Capital Fund Management launches half-price hedge fund

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2014
... Fund 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. These strategies are run at a constant 10% volatility. ...

Bubbling bubble?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2014
... of economic stats and surveys offer no clear forward view of the road ahead but also because investor sentiment is in neutral... literally. According to the latest American Association of Individual Investors' (AAII) Sentiment Survey, "Neutral sentiment ...

SPAA calls for reduction in SMSF levy

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2014
... but insisted it must represent the costs of administering and regulating the SMSF sector, saying it should be "revenue neutral". The levy rose by the 36% in the 2013-14 financial, from $191 in the previous year.

Fund managers expect clients to turn aggressive

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2014
... of investment strategy in Australia Tim Unger said. "This catches our attention as we rate developed market equities 'neutral' (as of February 2014) compared to a rating of 'moderately attractive' a year ago, reflecting the change in our view of valuation ...

Chinese currency reforms to transform bond benchmarks

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2014
... benchmarks, for example, will have to reallocate 12% of their portfolios to Chinese government bonds just to maintain a neutral exposure," he said. He recommends institutional investors begin building their exposures towards this number or face being ...

Bennelong Long Short Equity Management launches new fund

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2014
... launched a new Australian equities strategy, the Bennelong Alpha 200 Fund (the Fund). The Fund is a long/short market neutral strategy with the objective of generating consistent returns regardless of market conditions. The investment team applies fundamental ...

RBA rate cut on cards

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2014
... The fund returned 7.3% for the full-year 2013 with 4.8% coming from income distributions. That compares to the fund's neutral benchmark return of 5.7%. The Goldman Sachs Income Plus Fund maintained an overweight to infrastructure and utility assets in ...

Equity returns hinge on corporate spending

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2014