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US manager charged with fraud

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JAN 2011
... However, in numerous communications with clients and prospective clients, they deliberately overstated the value and liquidity of client holdings by concealing critical information about the way they were supposedly executing the strategy. Nadel inflated ...

Investors tap emerging market debt

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 17 JAN 2011
... sovereign EM bond markets are sufficiently liquid, except for those of smaller economies, where investors need to recognise liquidity risks. BNY Mellon is targeting Australian institutions seeking emerging market exposure through its subsidiary Standish ...

Government unveils response to Cooper

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 16 DEC 2010
... paves the way for it to be rolled out quickly primarily as a marketing initiative with only low implications for fund liquidity and investment strategy. Meanwhile, the Government will also stagger MySuper's implementation as not all funds will be required ...

Pay performance fees only, says $220b fund

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 14 DEC 2010
... also unveiled its new "landmark" asset allocation strategy. The fund plans to allocate 4 per cent of its assets to "liquidity", 63 per cent to "growth" investments (which includes public and private equity), 16 per cent to "income" investments (mainly ...

Covered bond conundrum

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 13 DEC 2010
... form of secured financing, regional banks would be able hold each others' covered bonds on their balance sheets to meet liquidity requirements, he said. Scobie cautioned that the proposal to allow Australian institutions to issue covered bonds has some ...

Best house in the slums

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 DEC 2010
... "buy now" when you can get better prices next week, next month, next year? And China? It's in the midst of draining liquidity in its system. Just last Friday, Beijing again raised the reserve requirement ratio by 50 basis points - the sixth this year. ...

Winter wonderland

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 DEC 2010
... activity saw Christmas prevail over Scrooge's early assault. Geo-political anxiety over tensions in the Korean peninsula, liquidity tightening fears in China and contagion concerns from the European debt crisis slowly eased by mid-week and replaced by ...

ECB relents, sort of

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2010
... the Eurozone. Trichet told a news conference that the ECB Governing Council decided to extend the provision of special liquidity measures - unlimited cash - to commercial banks through to the first quarter of next year at fixed interest rates and over ...

RMBS under the spotlight

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 2 DEC 2010
While liquidity has improved in Australia's residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) market, more needs to be done to boost the attractiveness and stability of the sector, said an industry expert. Jeff Brunton, head of capital markets at AMP Capital ...

MTAA halts new money to 'illiquid' option

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 DEC 2010
... $5.7 billion MTAA Super Fund is closing its Target Return Option to new money, as part of the fund's plan to align its liquidity policy with best practice guidelines and proposed APRA reforms. MTAA Super said that it will no longer accept members' contributions ...