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Legg Mason launches global debt trust

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 1 AUG 2006
... Kouryialas, said the trust's main sources of added value are "sector allocation, issue selection, duration management, yield curve positioning and currency management." The minimum investment is $500,000 with a return objective of 2 per cent above the ...

Daily economic update

... Federal Reserve officials later today. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke will deliver a speech entitled, 'Reflections on the Yield Curve and Monetary Policy,' at the Economic Club of New York. He is expected to argue that the current flat/inverted US yield curve ...

"Riskless view of the world" driving emerging markets

... rates for some time and people are getting a little more nervous about where things will go now," he said. "The US yield curve is inverted and typically in the past that goes with a recession, so that could be a concern for the riskier sectors such as ...

Buy NZ debt: Rapid Ratings

... added that the results demonstrated that debt securities should make up a part of "balanced" portfolios. "The Optimal Yield Curve demonstrates that the debt market should not be ignored in building a balanced and risk-averse portfolio. Tehre are a number ...

GoldLink GrowthPlus gets 'investment grade' rating

... analyst Greg Hogan says, "The GrowthPlus strategy favours cheap gold lease rates, a positive sloping interest-rate yield curve, lower cash rates, and Australian dollar gold price volatility." The ratings house suggests GrowthPlus may be appropriate for ...

Macquarie Active Fixed interest fund 3/5; Morningstar

... Fitzgibbon" and the appointment of another duration specialist has seen improved success during the past two years in yield curve management and security selection but added the loss of the bank's domestic credit team was a setback. "While there have ...

High fees weigh on Zurich ratings: Morningstar

... largely boosted the rating. "We like Deutsche's proven ability to offer value across a gambit of strategies - duration, yield curve, credit allocation, and security selection. The house has an edge over some others because its Australian fixed interest ...

WRAP: Overnight debt and forex

... [overnight], after a major rout on Friday prompted by unexpectedly strong April employment data. The short end of the yield curve clawed back only a small part of the 0.25% rises in yield on Friday, but the long end still played catch-up, yields edging ...

Equity investors confident on 2004: survey

... development in global financial markets has been the rise in long term interest rates, reflected in the steepening of the yield curve," Dr pereira said. Among other results, the FSIU said an increasing number of respondents expect property returns to ...

St.George Bank's new benchmarks oversubscribed

... Ltd as co-managers. The issues creates two new benchmarks and consolidates St. George's strategy of establishing a yield curve of large, liquid benchmark issues. A $100 million stock lending facility is also provided by St. George to assist in secondary ...