Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 551 - 560 of 853 results for "Market volatility"

FEATURE: Defending wealth

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2015
... retirement income. "Retirement is fundamentally different to accumulation," he continues. "In accumulation, market volatility is a good thing because it allows you to average your contributions at lower prices when markets correct. But when you're in ...

AB managed equities fund joins netwealth

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2015
... Volatility Equities Fund has delivered excellent returns by "smoothing the ride for investors during periods of market volatility." The fund achieved a return of 26.6% in its first year with about half the volatility of the FTSE ASFA Australia 300 Index ...

Review portfolios in global bond market sell-off

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2015
Woes surrounding government bonds prompting wider market volatility has left stock market investors being urged to review their portfolios. The call comes from deVere Group founder and chief executive Nigel Green, who recently said stock market investors ...

AllianceBernstein managed volatility strategy rated by Lonsec

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2015
... capability in helping investors-particularly those who are in or close to retirement-not only to weather today's market volatility, but also to maintain positive risk-adjusted returns over the long term. Roy Maslen, chief investment officer-Australian ...

Magellan ups cash weighting ahead of market volatility

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2015
Magellan Asset Management raised the cash weighting in its Global and Infrastructure funds in anticipation of a possible market correction in credit and equity markets. In a note sent to investors, Magellan chief executive and chief investment officer ...

Conditions and confidence collide

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2014
... slowdown, eurozone triple dip, geo-politics, geo-health, falling iron ore and gold prices, increased financial market volatility. These may have affected business confidence at the time of the survey. The NAB survey's forward indicators paint a rosier ...

Instos too slow to make investment decisions

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2014
... do so.A This is concerning as it implies that more than a third of schemes are not able to react quickly to market volatility. "Investment decision makers at retirement plans recommend speeding up the decision-making process regarding asset allocation ...

Jawbone collection

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2014
... collective jawbones to do the scaring away of the spooks over world growth, world peace, world health and financial market volatility. St. Louis Fed president James Bullard started the liftoff with his "pause on taper at this juncture" or even extend ...

Seesaw on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
... of the United States"....and St. Louis Fed's James Bullard, "We're not going to make policy based on emerging-market volatility alone". I even warned back then that whatever the Fed decides to do tonight - September 2013 FOMC meeting -- will have global ...

Annuities not right for default pensions: Rice Warner

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2014
... from franking credits). "Meanwhile, the capital would be projected to grow steadily in real terms. The risk of market volatility impacting the underlying assets is also reduced as the member is not spending his or her capital."