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The other emerging market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 APR 2011
... times. According to Agritrend SA, foodstuffs accounted for about 70 per cent of Argentina's 2010 export earnings. Excess liquidity and an improving global economic outlook should drive demand for food and energy even higher going forward. But these high ...

S&P rates cash offerings

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2011
... attractive rates from the banks. However, they offer the benefits of diversification, interest rate management, and liquidity (when compared with a term deposit)," said David Erdonmez, analyst S&P Fund Services. S&P said that Colonial First State's Wholesale ...

C'mon, Aussie, c'mon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
... bugs is less than almost zero per cent offered by the central banks of these countries and the risk of it being swamped liquidity they've flooded their economies. There's Australia's inflation discount. And when there's so much money floating in the ...

Aussie funds fail transparency test

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2011
... helps to monitor 1275 funds and about 130 managers, said people wanted more disclosure. "Transparency, simplicity and liquidity are key from a demand perspective. That's the message we're getting from major dealer group clients and advisers." Market ...

Pain sans hysteria

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2011
... charge of the situation in the MENA region by bombing Qaddafi. On top of these, the Bank of Japan is now adding more liquidity to the financial system. According to the Wall Street Journal, "Japan's central bank has offered a total of 55.6 trillion yen ...

Upside in fixed income: Aberdeen

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2011
... Australia, Aberdeen, cited a shift towards cash as the defensive asset, as a concern here, with term deposits lacking the liquidity and duration to hedge against growth assets. "If you look at bonds in isolation the reason for investing in them goes ...

Fund, Insurers unafraid of Japan quake cost

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2011
... biggest insured earthquake loss in history. But because global reinsurers come from a strong capital position with good liquidity, the loss would be small in percentage terms for them, the report said. "We expect them to suffer a minimal loss of capital ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2011
... Monday. Investors had every right to be concerned, although fear and greed was driving more speculative investors to seek liquidity which had accelerated the market decline, Nigel Scott, of Craigs Investment Partners, said.

Game changer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2011
... tomorrow. A total of 18 trillion yen or US$220 billion! And by all indications the buck would not stop there. Such massive liquidity injection will ultimately weaken the yen - a major bugbear for the economy even before the quake. In the end, a lower ...

Fund managers to face new norm in liquidity

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2011
... who they execute trades with. Ben Valentine, head of electronic execution sales for Asia, Citi, said gaining access to liquidity remains the greatest challenge to clients. As the market fragments and alternative venues, such as Chi-X, start to pop up ...