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Yellen yawn turn to Yellen yikes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2014
... "Financial Stability": "The Committee recognizes that low interest rates may provide incentives for some investors to "reach for yield," and those actions could increase vulnerabilities in the financial system to adverse events. While prices of real ...

GPS Wealth approves DomaCom fractional property fund

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
... want from as little as $2,000 and spread their asset allocation across multiple properties to achieve the right blend of yield and capital growth for their portfolio along with diversification, the primary risk mitigation strategy. DomaCom chief executive ...

A sign from the holy spirit?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2014
... open-ended purchases of government bonds of stressed members in the secondary markets. As the Wall Street Journal puts it, "Yield spreads between government bonds of Portugal, Spain and Italy have fallen sharply since then versus those of Germany... ...

AllianceBernstein adds Global High Income Fund

HARRY PAGE  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2014
The AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund (GHI) has been added to the netwealth platform. GHI, which has 16 year track record in offshore markets, uses a global, multi-sector approach which aims to capitalise on investment opportunities, portfolio ...

Here we go again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2014
Nah, it couldn't be! Nope, Virginia, like I have typed on this space before the US economy has not yet reached sustainable velocity and therefore those bring forward of expectations with regards to the Fed's first interest rate hike are merely that ...

AustralianSuper balanced option returns 13.88% in FY13

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2014
The equity markets' rally has contributed in AustralianSuper balanced option delivering 13.88% returns after investment fees and taxes for financial year 2013. The result was influenced by equity markets rallying both in Australia and globally. The ...

Adviser appetite for infrastructure investments increasing

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2014
... of the infrastructure and utilities sector look pretty compelling." he said. "Add to that the fact that the distribution yield in the sector is pretty attractive, especially in this low interest rate environment, and that means more investors are having ...

Manny Pohl issues prospectus for new retail LIC

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 JUL 2014
Manny Pohl's boutique Australian equity house, ECP Asset Management (ECPAM), has released the prospectus for a new small- and mid-cap listed investment company (LIC). Barrack Street Limited is targeting a maximum of $50million, with the LIC aiming to ...

US bond yields zipped by ZIRP?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2014
A trading day short of six months into 2014 and yields on 10-year US government benchmark bonds have dropped to 2.54% -- exactly 50 basis points below the 3.04% they were fetching at the birth of 2014. What's interesting Virginia, is that this is happening ...

YBR Smarter Money receives rating upgrade

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2014
... have been falling as banks have been able to source cheap money in the bond market. This has made the search for reasonable yield even more difficult for savers and retirees. We believe Smarter Money has an important role to play in helping investors ...