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Dealer groups stay with Japan, eye opportunities

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2011
... investor confidence and markets will be negatively impacted, it does not foresee big changes in the underlying trends in Japanese asset prices "We maintain our view that, over the balance of the year, Japanese equities and bond yields are more likely ...

Share plummet overplayed - fund managers

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2011
... that this 'knee jerk' reaction is denting investors' portfolios unnecessarily. "The response of financial markets to the Japanese earthquake and tsunami is becoming increasingly unrelated to the potential impact on the economy and Japan's trading partners. ...

Fund, Insurers unafraid of Japan quake cost

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2011
... least $100 billion, S&P said in their report Insurers' Strong Capital Should Help Forestall Rating Actions Related To The Japanese Earthquake. An early estimate by catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide put Japan's insured losses at up to $35 billion ...

Ratings houses silent on Japan fund fallout

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2011
... so far has made only 20 basis points of difference, he said. According to Morningstar the three funds most exposed to Japanese equities are: Platinum International, with a 20.6 per cent Japan weighting at the end of February, Walter Scott Global Equity ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2011
... Fukushima No.1 complex where four reactors had suffered explosions. The crisis has led to a huge stock sell-off, with Japanese giants such as Sony and Toyota hit after they were forced to halt production in the country, while shares in nuclear plant ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2011
... of 100.62 US cents and a high of 101.72 US cents. ICAP senior economist Adam Carr said news of another explosion at a Japanese nuclear power plant had dampened risk sentiment. "Markets are pretty jittery," he said. "Events in Japan are the thing to watch ...

Game changer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2011
... Japan, it would seem callous - perhaps even a sacrilege -- to be contemplating about investing and profiting from what Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan described as the worst since WW2. At a press conference in Tokyo, the PM declared that, "The current ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2011
... the Standard and Poor's 500 index fell on Monday. Utilities companies lost 1.4 per cent, the most of any group, as the Japanese disaster dimmed the prospects of nuclear energy. At the market close, the S&P index was down 7.89 points, or 0.6 per cent ...

Global shares, cat bonds review after Japan quake

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
A large hole has been punched in the Japanese economy by Friday's earthquake, with super funds tightlipped on the possible impact of exposure and advisors looking to their portfolios. Professor Andrew O'Neil, director of the Griffith Asia Institute ...

Japan bond jitters keep funds guessing

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
US treasuries may fall in value following the Japanese earthquake, with fixed-interest fund managers assessing their exposure in the wake of the disaster. Japan is the second largest foreign holder of US Government bonds after China, holding $882.3 ...