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Volatile markets spark innovation

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JAN 2012
... Zangari, managing director and head of portfolio management analytics at MSCI. "As a manager you need to understand ongoing risk on a daily basis including which stocks in the portfolio represent a particular risk as well as factoring in issues such ...

Buy the headline, sell the headline

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 NOV 2011
We've had the "risk on risk off" trade, we've had the "hope" trade and now we have the "headline" trade. And this you and I can plainly see on the intra-day ticks of last night's trading activity. Major equity markets in Asia and most of Europe -- Italy ...

Hope trade

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2011
Forget the risk on, risk off trade - what we're having now is the 'hope' trade. It would be hard for anyone not to notice the spectacular resurgence in the share prices of European stocks that happened overnight. The FTSE-100 ended 4.02% on the up and ...

New ESG guidelines to aid super investors

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2011
Australian companies will be under pressure to publish their environmental, social and governance risk under a new reporting guide launched today. The Financial Services Council (FSC) and the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) have ...

Super funds to provide standard risk measure

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2011
... issue a warning to members because this is a blunt tool, but it is a tool," said Graus. The start date for disclosing risk on a standardised basis coincides with the government's shorter product disclosure statement regime.

Dutch pension fund set for major reforms

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUN 2011
... strategies for different age cohorts. The preliminary agreement will not guarantee a nominal pension payout, placing more risk on employees, particularly younger ones. Funds may also be allowed to link the interest rate for discounting liabilities to ...

Rejoice for May has gone away

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUN 2011
... no significant changes to the landscape - but one could sense the smile on investors' faces if one cared to look. It's risk on one more time Virginia. Wall Street's up - big time. Europe's up - big time. Emerging market equities are up - big time. So ...

Fed & RBA on the ball

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 NOV 2010
... up by a mere 0.6 per cent over the past 12 months. This should shut up inflation worrywarts. QE2 is here to stay. It's risk on one more time. It's not only the Fed that appears to have gotten it right -- our very own Reserve Bank of Australia did too. ...

Plan for Life offloads LifeRisk Online

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 9 NOV 2010
Plan For Life passed its LifeRisk Online rights to the Life Risk Group, which announced plans to relaunch the adviser subscription service. Plan For Life said it would focus its attention on its core research business. Stephen Dingjan, managing director ...

Fed bearing gift of QE2

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2010
... New Year's on the 1st of January, the Fed will come bearing the gift of QE2 on the 3rd of November. And with this, it's "risk on"! Risk assets gained last night led by strong gains on Wall Street and commodity markets. There's now a sense of "heads - ...