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Dismiss fixed income at your peril

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2013
... can face very hard falls. While fixed income doesn't do well when interest rates are rising, it's far from the biggest risk on a whole-of-portfolio basis." GSAM proposes investors with less appetite for risk take a flexible multi-asset approach to access ...

Low risk choice poses high risk on savings: survey

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2013
About 50 per cent of young Australians choose a superannuation investment labelled "low risk" without knowing what it means and despite the fact that these options might not earn much more than the rate of inflation, according to a poll by AustralianSuper. ...

Fidelity ups risk on global recovery hopes

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012
There are early signs that the next share market rally will be sustained longer than investors have grown accustomed to, according to Fidelity's Trevor Greetham. The multi-asset portfolio manager, who is based in London says he is increasingly hopeful ...

Superannuation needs change: Keating

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2012
Australia could use a government-run longevity insurance fund to help provide a better retirement to people who are living longer, said former Prime Minister Paul Keating. Speaking today at the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) ...

CheckRisk LLP announces new CEO

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 NOV 2012
UK-based total risk management consultancy CheckRisk LLP has announced the appointment of Australian-based Denis Carroll as CEO and partner in the consultancy. "I've always been concerned about the lack of recognition of the importance of risk management ...

Fund managers bullish on Asian bonds

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
... Emerging Markets sovereign - so the risk and volatility profiles of those two asset classes are quite different." The present risk on/risk off environment has led to more money flowing to hard currency bonds, which tend to be less volatile. While many ...

Faith in monetary policy spawns new investment theme

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2012
... suggests there may be investment opportunities among industrial and technology equipment manufacturers." Acknowledging the risk on / risk off market was not good for the thematic investment strategy, Wood however said thematic investing was finding popularity ...

Renewed appetite for Aussie stocks

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 14 AUG 2012
... classes continuing to remain popular. However, Australian equities allocations have also increased as investors look for a risk on trade to take advantage of the rally in equities markets," Corbett said. Three new exchange traded products were listed ...

Playing with a loaded dice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2012
... those days of rumours and gossips and whispers. And oh, digging around for reasons on why the glass is half empty. It was risk on after cyberspace got wind of ECB council member Ewald Nowotny telling Bloomberg that the ESM - Europe's permanent rescue ...

Tell that to the marines

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2012
... interest to see the euro disappear. No one can deny that last week's agreement have removed a significant amount of event risk on the table. But as markets go, this had been replaced with a fresh - nay, a recycled - one. And this is that last night's ...