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Hungary private pension breakdown

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 22 OCT 2010
... system. Since their inception 12 years ago, over half of Hungarian private pension funds assets have been held in government debt. In related news, the four largest Dutch pension funds have felt the impact of a drop in interest rates with all four reporting ...

CFS GAM makes a case for raising govt debt

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 21 OCT 2010
A leading strategist at one of Australia's largest investment managers argues the case for more government debt in Australia, and says that super funds could play a key role in absorbing higher bond issuance. Stephen Halmarick, head of investment research ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2010
... received a boost on worries over currency depreciation after the US central bank signalled it will resume buying government debt to stimulate the American economy. The spot price of gold in Sydney at 1203 AEDT was $US1,376.30 per fine ounce, up $US20.82 ...

True Lies

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2010
... "Europe's recent "stress tests" of the strength of major banks understated some lenders' holdings of potentially risky government debt..." Further, "An examination of the banks' disclosures indicates that some banks didn't provide as comprehensive a ...

AustralianSuper seizes infra leadership

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 AUG 2010
... bought into single projects have been burned by downward valuations during the GFC, while Australia's low level of government debt ironically mean there are fewer major government instrumentalities likely to come onto the market. Despite these misgivings ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 AUG 2010
... daily average of 9.65 billion. US Treasuries prices rose as investors moved out of riskier assets into safe-haven government debt, with the yield on the two-year Treasury note falling to a record low. In the currency markets investors flocked to safe ...

All aboard

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUL 2010
... including 14 from Germany, six from Greece and four from the UK - could show a loss of around 17 per cent on Greek government debt and 3 per cent on Spanish bonds. The CEBS will disclose the results "both on an aggregated and on a bank-by-bank basis ...

World peace

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 JUN 2010
... advanced economies have committed to fiscal plans that will at least halve deficits by 2013 and stabilize or reduce government debt-to-GDP ratios by 2016." And "Those with serious fiscal challenges need to accelerate the pace of consolidation. Fiscal ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2010
... ahead of Agricultural Bank of China's initial public offering. Moody's Investors Service late Monday cut Greece's government debt rating to junk status, following a similar move by Standard & Poor's in April. The benchmark Hang Seng Index added 10.24 ...

Mood change

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2010
ow that's more like it! It feels good doesn't it? This may be the one we've been waiting for when something, somehow happens that short circuits the cycle of fear that had been feeding on itself for months now. Although, he didn't say much that the ...