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Snakes and ladders

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2010
... Wall Street is up because the US economy is not headed down. Day 2. Europe cheated... again. Banks are holding more sovereign debts on their books than they admitted last July when the Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) tested them if they ...

Super SA, GESB and Telstra Super join top 300

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2010
Fifteen of the world's top 300 pension and sovereign wealth funds are domiciled in Australia, according to a new report. That represents an increase of three on last year, with Super SA, GESB, and Telstra Super joining the global elite. The Future Fund ...

True Lies

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2010
... held in reserve means less money to circulate in the economy means reduced growth. And what do we get when there's new sovereign debt worries, spreads blow out. Irish and Portuguese bond spreads to German bunds widened to record highs while still-wide ...

Fixed income prone to emotion-led choices

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 6 SEP 2010
... traditional fixed income but getting higher yields (greed) only to have fear and caution prompt them to switch over to sovereign bonds later (fear). Roger Bridges, head of fixed income at Tyndall and author of the report, said in the midst of the crisis ...

Hung

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 AUG 2010
... international clients to look at Australian equities as an attractive asset class because of the political risk, the sovereign risk." Political risk? CountryWatch - "an information provider for corporations, government agencies, universities, schools ...

Asian M&A deals to surge

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 AUG 2010
... high. Factors driving the growth are positive regulatory changes, the potential solidarity arising out of the Europe's sovereign debt crisis and the predicted rising stability in the Asian financial market. Yet despite this, it seems that many companies ...

Alaska SWF beats target return by 2pc

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 3 AUG 2010
... year to June, 2 per cent higher than its target return due to its non-government bond and US stock investments. The sovereign wealth fund (SWF) returned 11.8 per cent for the financial year to record a $36 billion closing balance. Only one of the fund's ...

Sovereign keeps overweight to distressed debt

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUL 2010
Alternatives expert Sovereign Investment Research is recommending its superannuation clients remain overweight to specific distressed debt strategies ahead of expected defaults from small US-based companies. Ray King, managing director at Sovereign ...

No double dip recession: Fidelity

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUL 2010
Paul Taylor, head of Australian equities at Fidelity International, does not expect the world economy to experience a double dip recession but is positioning investment portfolios for lower global growth. Taylor said the chance of a global double dip ...

House call

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUL 2010
... year. Lower prices and falling mortgage rates - thanks to safe-haven buying of US Treasuries, thanks to the European sovereign debt crisis - should encourage more purchases going forward. Increased house purchases, along with diminishing supply - new ...