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FEATURE: Gear up for retirement

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
With longevity, inflation and market risk remaining critical for many Australians, Laura Millan looks at how advisers and product providers can join forces to come up with the best strategies to meet retirees needs. Treasurer Joe Hockey's 2014-15 budget ...

Plato partners Milliman to offer retiree income solution

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
... the globe." Plato has combined a growth oriented investment strategy with the management of volatility and equity market risk via the Milliman Managed Risk Strategy (MMRS) to provide retirees the opportunity to invest in a more sustainable way given ...

MetLife launches long-awaited retirement product

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2014
... global financial crisis. "With MetLife Max, if investors choose a product with a guarantee they can transfer some market risk to MetLife and retain access to growth, while also benefiting from low ongoing fees," he said. "In developing MetLife Max our ...

Bennelong Long Short Equity Management launches new fund

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2014
... applies fundamental research to identify pairs of securities, seeking to capture alpha whilst limiting exposure to market risk by adopting a dollar neutral portfolio market exposure position. The Fund invests primarily in the S&P/ASX 200, with 50% expected ...

Tyndall AM appoints investment risk manager

HARRY PAGE  |  THURSDAY, 5 DEC 2013
... appointed former JP Morgan executive Chris Collins as investment risk manager. Collins was previously with JP Morgan as a market risk analyst with responsibility for the Asia equity derivatives business and for reviewing the daily VaR and risk scenario ...

ASX launches S&P/ASX200 VIX futures

STAFF WRITERS  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2013
... Australian equity benchmark, the S&P/ASX 200, will provide Australian investors with an essential means of managing equity market risk in their portfolio

Time to be fearful?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 OCT 2013
... and less than a quarter the moves in 1929, 1987 and 2008, data compiled by Bloomberg show. Bank of America Corp.'s Market Risk Index that uses options to forecast fluctuations in equities, currencies and bonds reached minus 0.74 last week, the lowest ...

ASIC orders additional AFSL conditions on Sydney firm

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2013
... services licence (AFSL) of a Sydney-based firm. ASIC identified concerns about the adequacy of Roco International's market risk management systems. Roco will be required to document its governance, internal control and compliance arrangements for managing ...

Senior CBA exec puts blame on the bank for Storm disaster

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 1 AUG 2013
... action currently running in Brisbane against CBA, litigator Levitt Robinson revealed. Bailey was head of Credit and Market Risk at CBA between mid-2002 and mid-2004 and he had been overseeing the implementation of a single credit assessment process devised ...

Standard Life Inv GARS manager in shock exit

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2013
... market neutral multi-asset fund, it aims to deliver 5% above the cash rate by deploying an array of approaches. With market risk hedged out, the fund is specifically designed to protect investors from GFC style losses. Munro's exit may now prompt a review ...