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Benchmark bond funds worst choice for Aussie investors

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2013
... benchmark-sensitive fixed income investments are at the greatest risk from the uncertainty arising from the end of quantitative easing and the impending global interest rate rise, according to a senior global bond portfolio manager at AllianceBernstein. ...

Direct investment option key to retain fund members

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 AUG 2013
... communication, free financial education and financial advice. The Member Retention report is the result of an online quantitative and qualitative survey conducted between the July 19 and August 2, 2013, completed by a total of 1,585 respondents.

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 AUG 2013
... as it prepares to release minutes of its latest meeting. Emerging markets took a beating on expectations the Fed's quantitative easing will start to dry up. Tokyo tumbled 2.63 per cent, or 361.75 points, to 13,396.38 as the US dollar gave up earlier ...

SSgA launches cheap lifestyle funds

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 20 AUG 2013
... drawing income from their portfolio. The portfolios, which will have a headline cost of just 75 basis points, combine quantitative models of risk with an active overlay to mitigate against the effect of short-term volatility. They do this by combining ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2013
... Average, as disappointing American manufacturing data convinced investors the US Federal Reserve would continue its quantitative easing measures. "A weaker US dollar is generally associated with the fact that perhaps tapering won't occur next month as ...

Strong US recovery to send bond yields through the roof

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2013
... presentation to advisers and other clients at The Westin hotel in Sydney, Douglass said that the impending end of quantitative easing and the subsequent increase in interest rates poses the largest threat to global investors' portfolios. While Douglass ...

Henderson announces record profits

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2013
... from bonds to equities had not been as significant as expected. "Despite the US Federal Reserve's intention to slow quantitative easing, we have experienced less of the anticipated Great Rotation from bonds to equities," he said. "Instead, we experienced ...

Curve ahead

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2013

Let 'em rip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2013

Balanced funds ill-suited for fixed income blow-up

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUL 2013
Typical balanced superannuation portfolios are ill-equipped to protect investors from the impending end of quantitative easing and the subsequent rise in global bond yields, according to Russell director of client strategies for Asia Pacific Scott Fletcher. ...