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'Patient' Party

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2015
... the opposite way to where they were expected to go. The VIX index dove by 10.8% The US dollar index dropped by 2.3%; the yield on 10-year US Treasuries dropped by 13 bps to 1.92% and the yield on 2-years declined by 12 bps to 0.55%. US equities rallied ...

Legg Mason Brandywine fund awarded top rating

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015
... investing. The global opportunistic strategy steers clear of the fixed income benchmark and instead invests according to a 'real yield' philosophy. This differentiated style of investing has delivered Brandywine the highest return in its Mercer peer ...

A win-win currency war?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015
Whoopsie, I just got caught sleeping behind the wheels (er, keyboard). I just found out that there's now a term for the current "patient"-induced volatility in the financial markets. Reuters called (past tense) it "patient panic" in its published article ...

FEATURE: How ETFs are changing adviser asset allocation thinking

LAURA MILLAN, ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2015
... popular ETFs tend to either provide significant exposure to international equities (particularly US equities), Australian high-yield equities (which provide income as capital growth has slowed) or high-interest cash (to balance risk) - these attracted ...

FIIG assists on $40 million corporate bond issuance

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2015
... the bond market because there is a lot of unmet demand from investors for products offering a steady income at a higher yield than is currently available on term deposits," FIIG chief executive Mark Paton said. "A bond issue has many advantages for corporates ...

Patience, my dear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2015
... month. Core inflation slowed to 1.6% from 1.8% in November. Inflation expectation (as measured by the difference between the yield on 10-year US Treasuries and the yield on 10-year TIPS) was 1.65% on FOMC meeting day 27 January. What the Fed is seeing ...

Henderson to launch Australian global equity income fund

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2015
Citing an increased demand for yield locally, Henderson chief executive Andrew Formica announced the fund manager would be launching a global equity income fund for the Australian market in the coming months. Formica noted the dearth of similar products ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2015
... bourse was bouncing back after Monday's negative momentum with the banks, telcos and healthcare stocks leading the way. "The yield play is back on," he said. "It looks like the start of the European Central Bank's buying program has reminded people that ...

The die is cast

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2015
"Alea iacta est"! "The die is cast". This is what Julius Caesar exclaimed when he crossed the river Rubicon back in 49 BC. The same phrase that ECB president Mario Draghi must be uttering to himself as he began spending the first euro of his a,-60 billion ...

LMCI's portrait of labour market conditions

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2015
"Baby, baby, baby oooh Like baby, baby, baby nooo..." - Justin Bieber "Baby, baby, baby oooh." Another month, another strong and better-than-expected US non-farm payrolls report. US businesses added another 295K heads to their payroll (versus expectations ...