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Global bond fund gets first Aussie investor

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2015
Alpha Fund Managers has become the first Australian investor in a global asset manager's absolute return bond fund. Standard Life Investments' Absolute Return Global Bond Strategies Trust aims to return cash plus 3% per annum over rolling three-year ...

Easing cycle over for now

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2015
... a little more sanguine around the conditions in the economy. While they retain the flexibility to cut rates again, the Aussie dollar is helping to stimulate things in its current range," Reynolds said. Given the relatively stable domestic monetary policy ...

Investors flee Aussie equities, turn to international

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2015
Australia's love story with its own stocks might have run its course, with new figures showing that inflows into international equities exchange traded funds (ETFs) have outpaced their domestic counterparts. Inflows for Vanguard's international equity ...

Five minutes of commodity sunshine?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
... capital raising spooks of last week. Even more so that commodity prices of most variety have risen overnight. Hurrah for Aussie miners! This where it gets tetchy for a commodity exporting country like this land of Oz. Time and again, commodity prices ...

AustralianSuper builds in-house global equities team

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015
... of building a research process and an investment model. "The investment process will be quite similar to what we do with Aussie equities, which I guess can be labelled as core. We're trying to buy good quality companies at a discount to their intrinsic ...

Growth or crisis, always reasons to worry in Australia

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2015
... consequences that the scenario would have for Australia: "It would be an absolute boon for the export-led sector in Australia, the Aussie dollar would shoot up, there'd be so much demand," BT Investment Solutions head of sector portfolio management Ron ...

RBNZ tries to turn the turn in NZ economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2015
... host of other rationales, explanations and presumptions for the whys and the wherefores of the kiwi's rise against the aussie and its eventual - for sure - break above parity. It was looking ever so likely three months ago, it came close with NZ$1 buying ...

Chexit, Checcident and Chimbo

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2015
... advice to delay lift-off that, in turn, would lift Australian/US interest rate differential that, in turn, would support the Aussie. Too, a Grexit would put the entire euro experiment - and the euro as reserve currency -- at risk prompting central banks ...

Super pool reducing Aussie reliance on foreign capital: ASFA

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2015
Australia's compulsory superannuation system and its positive effects for individuals and the economy should not be lost in the Tax Discussion Paper process. This is the view of the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA), who recently ...

SMSF allocation to Aussie equities hits year-low

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2015
Self-managed super fund (SMSF) allocation to Australian equities has dropped to a year-low, as investment in international shares increases. The latest AMP-owned Multiport SMSF Investment Patterns Survey shows that allocation to Australian equities ...