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Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012
... first time China has reduced rates since 2008, with the one-year deposit rate dropping to 3.25 per cent and the one-year lending rate falling to 6.31 per cent. But, locally, financials were sold off, with Westpac leading the big four banks down, losing ...

Pop goes the QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012
... Peoples Bank of China (PBOC) just did it. The PBOC reduced borrowing costs - the first since 2008 - taking the benchmark lending rate down to 6.31% from 6.56% and handed banks more discretion in setting the rate they charge on loans and for those they ...

AMP infra fund buys into Indian energy

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2012
... "The best way to invest is through private banks. If infrastructure takes off the private banks will be there for the lending." Seth also acknowledged the regulatory challenges that are a synonymous with infrastructure investments on the sub-continent. ...

CalPERS awards Citi $28bn in securities lending assets

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2012
A securities lending auction of US$43 billion in US equities for the California Public Employees' Retirement System has awarded Citi exclusive borrowing access to US$28 billion of the assets. The auction was conducted in the by eSecLending, a global ...

AUI opens Office Property Fund to new investment

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2012
... of new office development over the past three years, as developers have had to deal with high debt costs and stringent lending requirements from banks. As a result, the limited office property supply should lead to rental growth or cushion rents from ...

Super sector turning to dedicated long-term lenders

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2012
As the major banks shift away from commercial property lending, super funds are turning to dedicated long term lenders, according to a funds manager specialising in secured private debt. "The superannuation sector is a really natural long term investor. ...

Private debt gets 'time in the sun'

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2012
... that a current invested fund is generating around 9%. While the major banks have traditionally dominated the commercial lending market, Basel 3 has prompted a spate of global deleveraging as banks examine liquidity ratios, which has resulted in financing ...

Securities lending is not short selling

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2012
Securities lending is a legitimate market activity for asset owners looking to lower their net trading costs, and it should not be confused with short selling. Securities lending is so mainstream that most exchanges around the world consider it to be ...

Dickens on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 APR 2012
... Lagarde's weekend announcement that the IMF "has secured "commitments that are north of US$430 billion," doubling the Fund's lending capacity and increasing its resources to intervene should it become necessary. Mademoisselle Lagarde stressed that this ...

What price surplus?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2012
... reverse some of this but with the banks short-circuiting the monetary policy transmission mechanism (ANZ has just lifted its lending rates), it would be small beer. I - While there are still a lotta investments going on in the resources sector of the ...