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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2011
... week. "So you've got more analysts revising down their growth expectations for the US economy and their outlook for US equities." The focus for the Australian market on Wednesday is the release of June retail sales figures and international trade data. ...

SMSFs stockpiling cash, weighted to banks

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2011
... highest level in 18 months. At the same time, the Multiport SMSF Investment Patterns Survey June 2011 found that Australian equities exposure fell by 2%. John McIlroy, chief executive of Multiport, said money was moving to the sidelines. "There is nervousness ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2011
... Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry release their business expectations survey, also for the June quarter. In equities news, Navitas Ltd issues full year results and Hutchison Telecommunications (Australia) Ltd releases first half results. In ...

Super funds to provide standard risk measure

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2011
... returns over any 20 year period using seven risk bands ranging from very low to very high, representing cash and regional equities respectively. Super funds will be left to implement their own methodologies for measuring this risk but must publish it ...

Boutique equities manager wins big Kiwi mandate

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2011
Boutique New Zealand equities manager Devon Funds Management has won a large new mandate from New Zealand Superannuation Fund. Mel Firmin, a spokesman for Devon, said the deal had been made in the last month. He could not confirm reports that the mandate ...

Debt and small caps broaden emerging market value

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2011
... attractively priced for institutional investment, said a State Street global investment strategist. With emerging market equities currently trading at 10.5x twelve months earnings, George Hoguet, a senior portfolio manager and emerging market strategist ...

Bonds eye off super funds

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2011
... defensive portfolios and a preferable option to bonds, which had a lot of structure but they behave in a similar way to equities. Core to controlling risk for institutions is to start moving their allocation to fixed interest with sovereign bonds, global ...

Lonsec casts eye over fund fee structures

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2011
Ratings agency Lonsec has analysed the fee structures of fund managers in its Australian Equities Long/Short peer group and discovered two funds that employ a performance hurdle of 0%. While the performance fee hurdles employed by most managers in the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2011
... million of October 2015 bonds, and the Housing Industry Association releases its Trades Report for the June quarter. In equities news, Wesfarmers Ltd issues fourth quarter sales figures, and Origin Energy Ltd and Murchison Metals Ltd publish quarterly ...

Fund manager recommends less defensive retirement

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2011
... that you could still maintain your growth exposure, if there's defensive, hard assets and growth, so cash, property then equities," said Reid. "We would think it makes more sense to go 70% growth and hard assets and only 30% defensive as long as you're ...