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FEATURE: Rethinking fixed income

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014
... Federal Reserve was looking at an early exit from quantitative easing sparked a 100 basis point spike in the 10-year Treasury yield. While there are a number of approaches available on the market to mitigate against interest rate risk, each is offset ...

Global healing?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014
... the week - asking its members' opinion about "the recent occurrence of the Dow setting new record highs and the 10-year Treasury bond yield falling back below 2.6% at the same time" - offers additional insight. AAII prints a sampling of its members' ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2014
... In local economic news on Tuesday, the minutes of Reserve Bank of Australia's May board meeting will be released, and Treasury Secretary Martin Parkinson delivers his post-federal budget speech to economists in Sydney. RBA assistant governor (financial ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2014
... Michael James, managing director of equity trading at Wedbush Securities, said investors are also "nervous" at the drop in treasury bond yields as demand for fixed-income investments picks up. LONDON - European equities fell as investors digested gloomy ...

Treasury Group buys ex-Macquarie boutique

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2014
Treasury Group is set to invest in Australian and Asian private equity investment and advice firm ROC Partners, which was formed after a management buyout of the business from Macquarie group. ROC is majority owned by its management team and specialises ...

SMSFs need no more regulation: Treasury

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2014
The self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) industry does not need to be prudentially regulated, Treasury has argued in its submission to the Financial System Inquiry. It said that a major attraction of SMSFs was the light-touch regulation, providing ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2014
... scheduled to speak at the APPEA's oil and gas conference which continues for the third of its four-day run. In equities news, Treasury Wine Estates chief executive Michael Clarke is expected to give a market update. In Australia, the market on Monday ...

Government will go ahead with FoFA changes: Ciobo

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2014
... committed to making all the proposed changes "as soon as possible", stressing the cost savings to the industry. "Analysis by Treasury estimates that the government's amendments would save the industry approximately $190 million a year with further savings ...

Prescriptions galore

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2014

ATO takes over SME super clearing house

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2014
... clearing house and the government is encouraging the other 700,000 businesses that are potentially eligible to sign up. Treasury has also engaged in further work to better understand the superannuation compliance cost concerns of small business employers ...