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Lift-off on Carney's mind

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2015
It's now safe to go back in the waters... This, perhaps, was what's in Bank of England (BOE) governor Mark Carney mind when, a day after news of the Greek deal, he told the UK Treasury select committee that: "The point at which interest rates may begin ...

Stirred but not shaken

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2015
Was that it? No fire sale? Have the financial markets lost their marbles? Haven't they read the headlines about Greece turn from gloom to doom and yet... there were no massive sell orders? Or, not enough buy-ops. Equity markets closed down, a bit, - ...

mFund doubles size in 6 months

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2015
... The ASX's mFund platform doubled its funds under management in the last six months and has just added a fixed income high yield fund. Bentham Asset Management High Yield Fund is the latest addition to mFund Settlement Service. The platform has now 95 ...

Corporate bond issue closes at $35m oversubscribed

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2015
... information that was previously available only to professional market participants." FIIG will report the daily coupon percentage, yield to maturity, running yield and institutional market price on over 200 AUD Fixed Rate, AUD Floating Rate, USD, EUR ...

Fedcident waiting to happen?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2015
... smaller biotech and social media stocks valuation were "stretched." And "compared to returns on safe assets like bonds"? The yield on 10-year US Treasuries has risen from this year's low of 1.64% to 2.41% (as at last night). And this still doesn't include ...

High-risk pursuits may undermine super funds' solvency

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2015

The Fed is Greek too

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2015
... 680.88 points last week, the Athex Composite Index has soared by 16.8% by the close of trading overnight. Similarly, the yield on 10-year Greek bonds dropped from a 2-month high of 12.76% to 10.36% last night. That certainly equates more than a fistful ...

Graccident averted (yet again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2015
Hoo-wow! Houston, we had lift-off. Yes Virginia, financial markets from New York to Rio and old London town lifted off while we slept. Equity markets jumped while bond yields dived. These, because on optimism that a Greco-troika deal would be hammered ...

ANALYSIS: The rise of the periphery

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
... "all economic indicators are ticking up and beating expectations. In Ireland, unemployment is at 10%, but the 10 year bond yield is at around 1.7%, which shows investors' confidence in the country's ability to pay its debt. Yields for Spain and Italy ...

Light at the end of the tunnel for EM debt

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2015
The correction in emerging markets fixed income has started, but this also means that the rebound is closer than investors initially expected, Lazard Asset Management said. In January 2015, it took one and a half months before emerging markets debt ...