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$1tr flows into US bond funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2013
... reaction investment managers are worrying about, yields on 30 year bonds are now 3.2%, notes Bloomberg figures. The yield curve for Australian bonds is not so steep, however, while 10 year bond yields are now 3.5%, yields on 15 year bonds are just 3.8% ...

Tyndall develops fixed income info kit

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2012
An information kit has been developed by asset manager Tyndall AM to help advisers explain how fixed income works to their clients. It will include eight fact sheets on different aspects of fixed income, such as credit markets, covered bonds, and the ...

Super Mario to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2012
... programme when they will be regaining bond market access. Transactions will be focused on the shorter part of the yield curve, and in particular on sovereign bonds with a maturity of between one and three years. No ex ante quantitative limits are set ...

AIMA helping super funds plan HF moves

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2012
... low vol returns will capture the interest of quasi fixed interest investors that don't want to get caught when the yield curve changes."

Premium China expands distribution team

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012
... Western economies have interest rates close to zero, if there is any actual interest rate increase, because of the yield curve bond prices will literally halve overnight," Wu said. "People who are in what they thought were low risk income funds or yield ...

Lonsec: Australian equity markets ready to rebound

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2012
... Bill Keenan Lonesec's, head of equity research. "The two most important reasons are firstly, a lower cash rate (and yield curve) lowers the return from cash, term deposits and bonds. "Secondly, the cost of debt is reduced which improves the disposable ...

The Fed, the ECB and the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2012
... and 2011? Boyoboyoboy, Australia's certainly heading for trouble now. For these are the periods when the Australian yield curve inverted, i.e., the yield on 10-year bonds was lower than the cash rate. The one that heralds an economic slowdown six to ...

Eyes turn to monetary policy

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 2 FEB 2012
... the 2.5-2.75% range, significantly short of its potential 3% rate. "Put simply, an environment of a flat to inverse yield curve invariably points to weaker economic outcomes," said Gibbs. "Should the yield curve become more extreme, then I would say ...

Pressure on yields continues

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012
... according to an industry expert. Added pressure from foreign borrowing and high bank demand looks set to distort the yield curve even further, says Roger Bridges, head of fixed income at Tyndall AM. "We just don't have enough there," said Bridges. "The ...

Reverse contagion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2011
... Seems to me that the contagion stops at Germany. Or it could be a harbinger of a German recession. Nah. The German yield curve remains positively-sloped. The German economy went into a recession in the third quarter of 2008 - two quarters after the yield ...