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Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
... WELLINGTON - New Zealand stocks belied normal market convention by rising after the Reserve Bank lifted the official cash rate and offered no respite to further interest rate hikes. The NZX 50 Index advanced 15.96 points, or 0.3 per cent, to 5195.11. ...

Promises promises and broken promises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
... uncle and his dog, when the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) announced that it was doing nothing - it left the official cash rate steady at 2.5%. While the RBA mostly stuck to the commentary template it has used over the past few months - below trend ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
... waiting for the latest unemployment data on on Thursday, as the Reserve Bank is not expected to make any change to the cash rate on Tuesday, he said. "We are in a bit of a holding pattern at the moment with the market, not just in Australia but globally ...

FEATURE: The alpha hunters

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014
... what they know regardless of whether or not it is good for them (according to Investment Trends, the historically low cash rate has done little to push SMSF trustees into new asset classes). The facts, then, go some way to confirming the caricature of ...

Dumping dear momos

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014
Uh-oh, are we in trouble now (again)? Wall Street had a big fall overnight providing evidence to those who claim the previous day's bounce was that of a deceased feline. Reports are it's about the rotation out of dear (as in expensive not the lovey-dovey ...

Multi-asset portfolios key for retiree income

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2014
Institutional investors must have a greater number and more intelligent blend of income-generating assets if they are to meet the needs their ballooning retiree client base, according to fund manager Investec. The group's co-head of multi-asset John ...

You go NZ

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2014
... the record low interest rates developed nations' club - this morning with its decision to raise the country's official cash rate by 25 basis points to 2.75%. This, according to Governor Wheeler's statement, is because, "New Zealand's economic expansion ...

High risk investors lose appetite for risk

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2014
... year, jumping from 7% to 13.6%. CoreData also surveyed investor satisfaction with cash. Unsurprisingly given the low cash rate only one in five were satisfied or very satisfied. However, three in five said they would not reallocate out of cash. Of those ...

Allan Gray Aussie fund listed on six platforms

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2014
... sharemarket. The fund has returned 8.4% per annum since inception, net of all fees compared to the benchmark, which is the RBA cash rate return of 3.5%. "We have seen growing interest in our contrarian approach as it challenges people to think again ...

Zenith recommends AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund

STAFF REPORTER  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2014
... track record of more than 16 years in offshore markets. It aims to achieve income returns in excess of the Australian cash rate after fees over the cycle. "This rating is a significant milestone in executing our diversification into the Australian retail ...