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Returns without volatility, you're not dreamin

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2012
... which they currently favour include South Africa and Malaysia because their corporate financing is often much more conservative than companies in other countries. Van Vliet said this approach limits their involvement in markets like China for the time ...

Huge opportunity is higher risk recovery stocks: Southeastern

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2012
... New Zealand. "Southeastern has recently been able to purchase high quality companies at significant discounts to conservative appraisals due to equity market volatility, economic uncertainty, and investors' need for comfort, the likes of which I have ...

UBS Global AM picked for three netwealth funds

STAFF REPORTER  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2012
... Tactical Beta Fund, the UBS Tactical Beta Fund- Balanced option, which it said complements the existing Growth and Conservative options that it launched in May 2012. UBS said that the funds have been designed in direct response to client demand, and ...

Juicy Macquarie profit belies revenue fall

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012
... foundation of a strong balance sheet, significant surplus capital, a robust liquidity and funding position and a conservative approach to risk management." The share price jumped nearly 4% in morning trading even though the result fell short of analyst ...

State Street profits up 23% on Lehman wind up

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2012
... information technology transformation program." He added: "Although equity markets have improved, clients remain conservative in their investment allocations which adversely affects our revenue. We continue to see demand for our solutions as evidenced ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2012
... towards these big resources companies as the local market consolidated recent gains. "There is a switch from the conservative ends of the market, which is your banks and retail and Telstra and that sort of thing, into resources," Mr Smith said. "That's ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2012
Australian stocks have opened slightly weaker, with concerns over Germany's business confidence and euro zone debt weighs down investor sentiment. At 1027 AEST on Tuesday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was down 10.9 points, or 0.25 per cent, at 4,374.6 ...

Super loyalty defies low return expectations

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 14 AUG 2012
... expecting a positive return were predicting an average 7.7% gain, Turnbull says this is unrealistic for even the most conservative portfolios. "People could be disappointed when their super statement turns up in the mail. The global economy has wreaked ...

MySuper Bill could expose individual trustees to legal action

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2012
... trustees should be prudent, the coalition of representative bodies does not want to see them become overly cautious and conservative because they are scared of being sued. The legislation also leaves the door open for "frivolous and vexatious claims" ...

Offshore tax havens bank $32tr: report

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 23 JUL 2012
... report's author told the BBC that the study was like "measuring the size of a black hole", and that his findings were conservative. The Price of Offshore Revisited was written for the Tax Justice Network by James Henry, former chief economist at consultants ...