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First quarter (w)innings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2013
It's quite fitting that we concluded the first three months of the year 2013 munching on egg-shaped chocolates - big and small - for if the first quarter is anything to go by, financial markets could look forward to more kinder surprises for the rest ...

ESG risks can wipe $21.4bn off sharemarket: study

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2013
... is an issue when investing in difficult regimes in Africa, but added that the risk also exists in Australia. "It was a surprise that some people weren't taking into account risks that we could see," McCullagh said. McCullagh said that the research gives ...

UK adviser reforms drive out 9,400 advisers

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2013
... advisers fell from 40,566 down to 31,132, a fall of 9,434 advisers, noted the Money Marketing news service. But in a surprise to critics that expected the RDR would see the adviser industry tilt in favour of bank based advisers, the Fundweb news service ...

Earnings growth key to equity returns

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2013
The Australian market has little exposure to genuine growth stories and is too much at the mercy of cyclical trends, says Hyperion Asset Management managing director Tim Samway, who believes that a focus on company fundamentals is the only way to go. ...

Virgin blazes trail with redundancy cover

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2013
Virgin Money Australia plans to roll out a full suite of insurance products following a phenomenal take-up of its existing offering, including income cover that pays up to $3,000 a month if the insured is made redundant. The group's managing director ...

Hedge fund inflows set to double

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2013
Record low bond yields and the return of global confidence should see inflows into alternative equity strategies more than double in 2013, according to PIMCO executive vice president Ryan Korinke. The hedge fund expert, who is over from the US to meet ...

Gerard Doherty resigns from Fidelity

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2013
... surrounding Doherty's departure saying only that it was a 'private matter' between him and Fidelity. Fidelity stressed that the surprise resignation would not impact its investment operations in any way as the portfolio managers and their analysts, headed ...

Investors overlook US recovery

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2013
... certainty that now existed following the complex sequestration problem as clear signs of an improving economy. But the big surprise brimming him with confidence was the improvements shown in US housing. "Immigration and low interest rates means that ...

EM corp bonds better than US: CFSGAM

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013
... transformation, helped by the global financial crisis and escalating sovereign debt problems, has taken many investors by surprise. "A decade ago no one would have believed Mexico could borrow more cheaply than Spain," she explained. Emerging market ...

China's turn to provide buy opportunities

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2013
... expanding. Yeah, I didn't think it was that either. It was just thrown in into the mix - for greater effect - by China's surprise announcement of more property curbs - higher down payments on property purchases, increased mortgage rates and sterner implementation ...