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Another October to remember?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2014
... social media and biotechnology industries" appear "substantially stretched", "prices of real estate, equities, and corporate bonds have risen appreciably and valuation metrics have increased, they remain generally in line with historical norms." However ...

Down one day, dip buying the next

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2014
... parade just over the past very few days. Recall how you fretted Virginia the day Portugal's Banco Espiritu Santo's shares and bonds plunged and trading on them halted on the 10th of this month - the S&P 500 index dipped by 0.4% that day. Dip buyers sent ...

Yellen yawn turn to Yellen yikes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2014
... increase vulnerabilities in the financial system to adverse events. While prices of real estate, equities, and corporate bonds have risen appreciably and valuation metrics have increased, they remain generally in line with historical norms." Yeah, yeah ...

Calastone launches automated reporting tool

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2014
... of income from the underlying units of managed fund, plus the tax components. The underlying could be shares, property, bonds and/or cash, so the distribution can include interest earned, franked and unfranked dividends, tax deferred income, and any ...

A sign from the holy spirit?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2014
... is central to the Christian faith but the bank named after it in Portugal - Banco Espiritu Santo. Trading in scripts and bonds issued by Portugal's biggest bank were halted overnight after they fell sharply on news that "Espirito Santo International ...

AllianceBernstein adds Global High Income Fund

HARRY PAGE  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2014
... opportunities, portfolio liquidity and income potential. This enables its managers to go beyond sub-investment-grade corporate bonds to any high-yielding issue where potential risk-adjusted returns are increased. GHI may be offered to Australian investors ...

Fed alert to market reaction to Fed action

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2014
... latched on the minutes' blah, blah on the Fed's exit strategy, its concern over low volatility in the market for stocks, bonds and currencies, end to taper in October, the timing of first rate hike... blah, blah, blah and blah. All these are important ...

New laws bring aged care advice into the spotlight

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2014
... preservation under the new rules. The reforms have brought new terminology and new requirements. The traditional accommodation bonds have been replaced with refundable accommodation deposits (RADs) and period payments have been renamed daily accommodation ...

Funds return 11% in May

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2014
... returns from international shares continued their dip to 23% at end May down from 31% at end April. Domestic and international bonds meanwhile returned 4.1% and 5.9% respectively which even though they're up from previous months is still far behind returns ...

FEATURE: In search of the missing asset class

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014
... institutional and retail participation in local fixed income markets. Australian investors have little appetite for investing in bonds compared to their overseas peers. A 2012 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) survey found ...