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Aussie stocks best value for 25 years

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2013
... robust. These key measures of balance-sheet strength are much healthier than during the value opportunities created by the GFC, the tech boom and the Australian financial crisis of 1991," said Maslen. He adds that while the value spread between cheap ...

ASX volatility index moves to live pricing

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013
... current end-of-day VIX index providing the market with intra-day volatility information. Market turmoil in the wake of the GFC, ongoing European sovereign debt crisis and other macroeconomic risks has seen volatility treated as an asset class in its ...

Super assets up 15% to $1.5tr

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2013
... report. But while there are optimistic signs in the figures that the superannuation industry has finally passed through the GFC turbulence - although members will be feeling the affects for years in foregone returns - the figures contain indications ...

Rethinking the value of asset consultants

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2013
... restructure, Russell Investments new chief executive for the Asia Pacific, Alan Schoenheimer, convened a media briefing and said the GFC had many confronting lessons for institutional investors and their clients, but rather than prove the investment ...

CalPERS cry foul play, backs lawsuit

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2013
... of Justice sued the agency for fraud in relation to the rating of mortgage-backed securities in the years leading up to the GFC. "Many investors, financial analysts and the general public expected S&P to be a fair and impartial umpire in issuing credit ...

$1tr flows into US bond funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2013
... rates. Where this will bite Australian investors is that the wall of money that poured into cash and term deposits since the GFC is now underperforming the Australian equity market by a factor of three to one. According to the Reserve Bank, the average ...

Loomis Sayles to launch CLO locally

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2013
... fund to the Australian market later this year. Expected be one of the first of its kind to return to the market since the GFC, Apostle's managing director Karyn West expects the underlying investment - designed for the institutional market - to comprise ...

Still pent-up demand as ETFs celebrate record year

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2013
... financial crisis acted as a wind break to wider uptake of the instruments. "ETFs were gaining a lot of traction before the GFC but Australia is still five years behind what's happening overseas," he said. "There's a lot of pent-up momentum in the ETF ...

Small shareholders eclipsed by instos

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2013
... average, this trend has been reversing since at least 2002," said Comerton-Forde. "Interestingly, this trend pre-dates both the GFC and various market structure changes - both of which are argued to have caused a decline in retail investment. There are ...

No end in sight for ASX rally: InStreet

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2013
... "I can see this rally going on and on; this market can support a multi-period rally to reach the highs last seen before the GFC." The S&P/ASX 200 reached an all time high of 6829 Index points in November of 2007, and recently hit its highest point since ...