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Property set for attractive multi-year returns: Stan Life

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2012
... investors via the rents paid by tenants of the underlying assets. With falling cash rates, continued equity market volatility and a subdued global growth outlook, investors are flocking to yield generating investments with alternatives like real estate ...

New rules for HFT trading

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2012
... confidence in Australia's financial markets. "I believe that these new rules will help to reduce the risk of market volatility from high frequency trading and provide increased investor protection for retail investors and others trading in dark pools," ...

Same old blues but some upside in 2013: Russell and Threadneedle

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2012
... and Threadneedle agree that while equities will provide modest returns in 2013, they see little evidence that market volatility will abate. In their respective market outlooks for November, both global investment houses pointed to improvements in the ...

Investor cash obsession worries wealth creators

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2012
... money still parked in the 'folding stuff' - due to what have been attractive term-deposit rates and protracted market volatility - is a lingering nemesis confronting the wealth creation industry. While falling interest rates and a slightly improved global ...

Retirement solution upside for investment managers: Oliver Wyman

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2012
... to around $1 billion in 2012. "What's causing this negative impact to flows and the outlook is ongoing share market volatility and investor risk aversion," Hook Explained. Equally concerning for investment managers, Hook added is the ongoing growth of ...

van Eyk launches new asset allocation tool

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2012
... active investment management within a long-term strategic asset allocation. "Investors should expect ongoing market volatility given the global debt burden and extreme monetary policies and cannot rely solely on market trends to deliver superior returns," ...

Successful Telstra bond issue to open flood gates for big banks

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012
... of market research specialist Lincoln Indicators believes that falling term-deposit rates and continued stock market volatility have created a thirst for low-risk bonds from high quality issuers. "Corporate bond, hybrids and other interest rate insensitive ...

Huge opportunity is higher risk recovery stocks: Southeastern

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2012
... been able to purchase high quality companies at significant discounts to conservative appraisals due to equity market volatility, economic uncertainty, and investors' need for comfort, the likes of which I have not often seen during my four decades of ...

Juicy Macquarie profit belies revenue fall

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012
... down 5% on last year owing to its low volumes in its advisory and securities trading businesses amid continued market volatility. Low levels of merger and acquisition activity have also impacted the group's capital business. The group cut costs to $2.6 ...

Russell ups risk in equity ETFs

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2012
... Woolworths, Treasury Wine Estates and Cochlear and replaced them with more bell weather stocks. "Increases in market volatility amid ongoing uncertainty with the Eurozone crisis, the future of China's growth and US markets, have seen the valuation in ...