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Variety of strategies needed for all-weather outperformance

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2013
... Lowenstein. The single biggest position in the fund, which is currently invested in securities in 11 countries, is in Japanese drug stores. Lowenstein explains that this is both a play on the ageing population in Japan and a local trend for Japanese ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2013
... in New York on Friday. HONG KONG - Asian shares were mixed, but the yen's accelerated fall against the greenback drove Japanese stocks to a fresh five-year high, while new economic data signalled a sluggish recovery in China. The Australian dollar slid ...

Down, down, dollar down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2013
... into unwinding QE3 sooner rather than later. At the end of last week, the US dollar rose to a four-year high against the Japanese yen, one-month highs against the euro and the New Zealand dollar (helped by RBNZ Governor Graeme Wheeler's confession that ...

Losing triple A by trying to maintain AAA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2013

Value in EM debt and bank loans for bond investors

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2013
... doesn't see this event occurring any time soon. "Liquidity won't dry up for at least two quarters and probably beyond. The Japanese government has pledged long-term support for monetary stimulus and the data coming out of the US is simply not strong ...

Top-down approach wins in post-GFC world: Hexavest

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2013
... strong value bias, preferring to take positions in under-represented markets. The strategies have profited heavily from Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's pledge of monetary support to the economy, for instance. However, Brunelle says the team is now ...

A lesson against austerity

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2013
... government's 'three-arrows' - huge fiscal spending, large monetary stimulus and structural reforms - are hitting the right spot. Japanese household spending soared by 5.2% in the year to March - much, much more than expectations for a 1.8% increase and ...

Insto investors bullish on equities: EIU survey

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2013
... Conversely, 22% of investors rated government bonds as the most likely to increase in risk over the next 12 months. "Japanese bonds are particularly susceptible to the unwanted effects of looser monetary policies aimed at stimulating growth," researchers ...

Three arrows hitting the spot

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 APR 2013
... have finished with its sprint to the bottom yet. Not when the 19 other biggest countries of the world has just given the Japanese currency permission to dive even deeper (sorry for the metaphor mixing). The G-19 bought into Japan's argument that the ...

Can't lose

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 APR 2013
... to 33% of the Total Return Fund's assets in March because, "This BOJ printing seeps out daily into global markets as Japanese institutions which have sold their Japanese government bonds to the BOJ look for higher yielding replacements...Ten-year Treasurys ...