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Statewide hits $2b FUM milestone

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2007
... their savings in Statewide's Australian equities option received a 28.7 per cent return." Magill said recent market volatility highlighted the need for investors to take a long-term view on their investments. In August, Statewide announced it would offer ...

Stop chasing artificial yields: PIR

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2007
... market so there's no way of evaluating their skills under those conditions." He said that in light of current market volatility, investors should scrutinise property investments more carefully to identify value.

Pengana launches global volatility fund

... its launch. Pengana's chief investment officer Nick Griffiths said the fund was designed to exploit changes in market volatility, initially in the US S&P 500 index and later to major global stock market indices. The fund was the brainchild of Alvin Wilkinson ...

On the sub-prime defensive

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2007
... buffered from the capital markets volatility". Keen to distance themselves from the likes of RAMs and capital market volatility Wizard points out that they are funded by parent company, GE which is also triple A rated. Wizard Chairman and founder Mark ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2007
... recently have been pretty good but I think, for the time being at least, we're going to see a continuation of market volatility," Foulsham said. "It's up about 100 points today but was obviously off by a similar amount on Friday... and a lot of companies ...

Market uncertainty stalls K2 float

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2007
Top rating fund manager K2 Asset Management has withdrawn its initial public offer (IPO) due to recent market volatility. K2 Asset Management chairman Campbell Neal said an ASX listing at this time would not meet the objectives of K2 and therefore wouldn't ...

Concepts in risk 101

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2007
... dominated by the US sub-prime fallout, but has the market lost its Mojo or is this interest rate and currency market volatility just a rollercoaster ride? Equity markets ended largely unchanged from where they started last week, hit hard as the concept ...

IMF blames the world

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2007
... adamant that inflation is "well within" the Reserve Banks' 2-3 per cent target. The IMF also warns that risks and market volatility have also increased due to deterioration in credit quality across some sectors. This credit crunch is already evident ...

Market volatility, rising AUD hits super funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2007
Volatile stock markets and the surging Australian dollar are taking their toll as super fund returns trim back to just over 10 per cent for the 12 months to end March. The size of the slowdown is significant - just one year ago funds were delivering ...

BT Margin Lending booming

... risk. They understand the need to diversify, the need to take a long-term investment approach and to expect market volatility." Hamish Madden