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Waiting and hoping

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2011
... the global economy and financial markets. Let me explain why am not in the mood. Unlike the days of the global financial crisis when there was general agreement from fiscal and monetary authorities that something - anything - must be done to stop the ...

Insto investors stand by equity risk models

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011
... believed that the 'quant meltdown' of 2007, which saw investors flee from quantitative hedge funds as the global financial crisis took hold, was not caused by investors using the same model. "It's not just the risk numbers, model output, data and factor ...

Retail funds narrow satisfaction gap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2011
... Retail Funds has continued to narrow in recent times and at 3.5%, is now at its smallest since before the Global Financial Crisis," said Norman Morris, Roy Morgan's industry communications director. Prior to 2008 when super fund returns were consistently ...

Black swans test strength of portfolio construction

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2011
... is that correlations between indexes or asset classes are not stable over time, Robinson said. In the global financial crisis of 2008, commodities that usually have a negative correlation to stocks - moving in reverse - instead shot up to a positive ...

Trading volatility can protect portfolio from big swings

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011
... that it had been a challenging period for those invested in the developed markets. But lessons from the global financial crisis showed how different markets had performed. "Assets moved in proportion to their betas," he said. "US stocks went down, emerging ...

UniSuper chief wins exec of the year award

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2011
... members, introduction of an in-house investment capability and effectively steered the fund through the global financial crisis and its aftermath," said Cuffe. McCredden said he was "deeply honoured and humbled" to win the award.

Greed is good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2011
... 2001: Terrorist Attacks on the US - 49.35 2002: US Recession; Tech Crash; World Com, Enron - 48.46 2008: Global Financial Crisis - 89.53 2010: Greek Sovereign Debt Crisis - 48.20 2011: US Downgrade/European Debt Crisis/Double Dip Fears - 48.00 Now think ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2011
... reported a 13 per cent rise in full year net profit, driven by the continuing fall in bad debts since the global financial crisis and improved interest margins. Although the result was positive, CBA was the worst-performer among Australia's big four ...

Market dives on US downgrade, China demands new reserve currency

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2011
... Warren Hogan, chief economist at ANZ, attacked ratings agency credibility, pointing to their role in the global financial crisis and said the US downgrade shouldn't be a surprise. "They're a lagging indicator, they don't tell us anything the market has ...

Markets crash as recession fears hit

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011
... fear was that central banks would not be able to respond to a second recession the way they did to the global financial crisis. Most major western countries cannot cut interest rates dramatically as they are already near zero and governments cannot provide ...