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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 ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2012
... futures contract was down 31 points at 4,300. In economic news on Monday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases lending finance data for February. In equities news, a scheme meeting is to be held for a shareholder vote on the Whitehaven Coal and ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012
The Australian market is set to open higher after stocks on Wall Street posted large gains on a surge in lending in China and a rise in eurozone industrial production. At 0802 AEST on Friday, the June share price index futures contract was up 27 points ...

Can't fix what's not broken, yet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2012
... that call. And although forecasters got it right last month - the RBA stayed - Australian banks went ahead and raised lending rates anyway to make up for higher funding costs and to protect their profit margins. It's difficult enough to be a central ...