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Moody's downgrade drives demand for Aus bonds

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2013
... credit rating, leaving global investors with one less top-rated economy. Moody's downgraded Britain's credit rating to AA1 from AAA, with Australia now the third largest triple-A bond market after Germany and Canada. The downgrade puts Australia "in ...

ASIC cancels national planning firm's license

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2013
National financial planning business AAA Financial Intelligence has had its license revoked by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) after it had 'comprehensively and repeatedly' failed to comply with the Corporations Act 2001 ...

There's no bubble in bond markets: Tyndall AM

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2013
... a higher price. "In the near to medium term, Australian bonds will remain attractive. With the US and France losing their AAA status and several of the remaining AAA rated countries looking shaky, Australia's position is stronger than ever," Bridges ...

Grexin Brixit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2013
... limbo till 2017. With British economic activity seemingly on the wane once again and its credit rating expected to lose its AAA status this year, this is one plan Cameron should have just kept hidden in his skull. Do the other Europeans care? Sure they ...

US credit rating threatened, buy US bonds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2013
... is about to do a Standard & Poor's. Fitch warned America that it's got its scissors out, ready to snip an A off Uncle Sam's AAA rating. According to David Riley -- head of Fitch's sovereign-rating team - "If we have another one-minute to midnight deal ...

Off the cliff and into the ceiling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2013
... July to August of that year due to the impasse on the budget ceiling and Standard & Poor's took away one A from America's AAA credit rating. This time it's complicated by the Republicans wanting to tie spending cuts - they've already compromised on Obama's ...

LGS wins Best Green Super Fund Award

MARK STORY  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2012
... contributed to LGS's receipt of this latest Award include: Specific allocation of up to 15% of the portfolio in primarily 'AAA' rated 'green' or 'climate' bonds issued by agencies such as the World Bank, European Investment Bank or Asian Development ...

Ex-Kangaroo and Storm adviser banned for non-compliance

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2012
... financial adviser with Storm Financial Ltd between May 2006 and June 2009 and is currently an authorised representative with AAA Financial Intelligence Ltd. An ASIC investigation found that between 20 November 2007 and 10 December 2010, Mr Fullerton-Smith ...

A good new year past the cliff

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2012

Spain here we come

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2012
... know the one, the credit-rater who gave what later turned out to be rubbish CDO's and other structured securities glowing AAA's back in the days; and the one the Federal Court of Australia found guilty of negligence and "misleading and deceptive" when ...