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Look up in the sky, it's the yen

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2016
Safe haven purchases, speculative positioning ahead of the fiscal year-end, repatriation, reduced interest rate yield differential, policy impotence... take your pick. The fact remains that the Japanese yen has appreciated - big time - vis-A -vis the ...

Planners turning to annuities and outcome funds

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2016
... especially in this high volatility and low interest rate environment, financial planners are reducing their flows into safe haven investments such as cash and term deposits in favour of more sophisticated products," said Investment Trends head of research ...

Risks are overstated: AUI

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2016
... these could be sources of opportunity for investors. "The current valuations on some sectors can't all be borne out. Safe haven stocks are defying gravity while financial stocks are implying GFC-type scenarios. This valuation mismatch cannot be sustained." ...

FIIG offers Apple bonds

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2015
... sophisticated investors. Paton said the bonds offered potential value because of Apple's rock solid credit profile and safe haven status which made them attractive to investors in periods of economic turbulence. "We expect these bonds to be popular with ...

Emerging markets a no go in 2015

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015
Investors are planning to sell their emerging market exposure in 2015 according to the latest survey by global asset manager Legg Mason. The survey, which sought investment habits and expectations from more than 4,200 high net worth investors across ...

Why are bonds no longer a safe haven?

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 SEP 2014
The reputation of bonds as being a safe haven is being challenged by a surge in global financial market re-regulation, according to UBS head of investment strategy Tracey McNaughton. At a media briefing in Sydney yesterday McNaughton said that the repeal ...

Goldilocks is back in town

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2014
... 2.1% in June with the core rate steady at 1.9%. Benign inflation is the main reason why - apart from Putin's induced safe haven buying - yields on 10-year US Treasuries remain low in spite of the Fed's US$10 billion monthly reduction in asset purchases ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2014
... Friday. "Gold stocks are one of the only areas to really be improving in a significant manner, I guess because of the safe haven manner of the commodity," he said. "It's normal to see this sort of reaction.... gold stocks going higher, mining stocks ...

FPA campaigns for a separation of product and advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2014
... of FoFA, on June 17. "We are an eternity from seeing comprehensive and viable protections that offer an appropriate safe haven to investors who should expect that financial advice -not product sales- always be given in their best interest," the FPA chief ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2014
... resource names are trading lower, including BHP and Rio, but gold stocks are doing OK because gold tends to be a good safe haven play when the Russia situation is escalating." BHP Billiton was down 14 cents at $38.14 while Rio Tinto was down 30 cents ...