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BofA: Fund managers appetite for risk growing

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 23 JAN 2012
... normal" compared to 48% last month. Other results showed asset allocators have further increased their exposure to US equities while 31% remain underweight in eurozone equities, up from 35% in December, with US fund managers returning to bank stocks ...

So far so good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 JAN 2012
... know the one, the observation that the market's performance for the entire month of January predicts the direction of equities for the remaining 11 months of the year. Statistical analysis shows that this had been correct nearly 75% of the time. And ...

Fund managers rate Aust equities

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012
... rise of internet technologies is also affecting the local sharemarket, according to Martin Conlon, head of Australian Equities, fund manager Schroders. In valuing Australian equities, Conlon rated them as fair value despite PE ratios for equities appearing ...

Pengana fund manager departs

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012
The Pengana Asian Equities fund has been downgraded by Standard & Poor's in the wake of fund manager Elan Miller's departure from the team before Christmas. Miller has been replaced in his role as technical analyst for the strategy by new recruit ...

Not so wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012
... these early days of the brand new spanking year is investor appetite for risk assets. Wall Street, European and Asian equities closed mostly higher again over the past 24 hours. Commodities are up, with copper jumping a four-month high and aluminium ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012
... At 0756 AEDT on Friday, the March share price index futures contract was up 28 points at 4,225. No major economic or equities news is expected on Friday. In Australia, the market on Thursday ended flat after disappointing jobs data wiped out earlier ...

Aberdeen strategy team changes

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2012
Internal changes to Aberdeen Asset Management's multi-sector strategy teams have seen equities strategist, Peter Elston, promoted to the newly created role of head of Asia-Pacific strategy and asset allocation. In the Singapore-based role, Elston will ...

HSBC launches new retail equity product

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2012
... Singapore and Taiwan in the basket are designed to capture HSBC's confidence in Asian growth. The presence of Australian equities in the mix is less a consideration of recent performance as a reflection of investor interest domestically due to a familiarity ...

Fidelity backs move to empower shareholders

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2012
... complex and, in some cases, too generous and out of line with the interests of investors," Fidelity Worldwide Investment's equities chief investment officer Dominic Rossi told Reuters. "We say to remuneration committees: 'Make sure you understand the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2012
... 4,222. In economic news on Thursday, The Australian Bureau of Statistics releases its labour force data for December. In equities news, Santos gives its fourth quarter production report, as does Woodside Petroleum Ltd and the Australian Institute of ...