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Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2012
... Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) releases new motor vehicle sales for May. No major equities news is expected, although Treasury Secretary Martin Parkinson is due to address the CEDA State of The Nation dinner in Canberra. In Australia, the market ...

Local DMA providers hit back

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2012
Australian DMA providers in the CFD sector have warned Treasury officials over what they claim are misrepresentations being made on the use of client money to hedge positions. Australian direct market access (DMA) providers First Prudential Markets ...

AMP infra fund buys into Indian energy

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2012
... infrastructure, infrastructure is really poor, but there are so many obstacles before you get to the infrastructure," Eng Tek Tan, Treasury Asia Asset Management, told Financial Standard. "The best way to play India is through the banks, private banks ...

Equity value - cheap or the new normal?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2012
... month. This is lower than the lowest yield (2.08%) reached at the height of the GFC in 2008. So what does the 10-year US Treasury yield of sub-2% tell us? It tells us that the bond market expects economic depression and deflation to ensue. Investors ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012
... five-week high. Continuing worries over Europe's debt crisis encouraged more buying in safe havens, with the US 10-year Treasury bond yield falling to a fresh record low of 1.58 per cent. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 26.41 points, or 0.21 per ...

CIO and COO award winners named

FINANCIAL STANDARD TEAM  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2012
... finalists, namely Sam Sicilia, CIO at HostPlus, and Jonathan Green, head of investment facilities at New South Wales Treasury Corporation. Meanwhile, Stephen Rowbottom, chief operating officer at Hostplus, received the inaugural COO award. Like Merlicek ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2012
... dived in the wake of European and Asian losses on rising investor worries about Spain's weak banks. The yield on the US Treasury's 10-year bond hit an all-time record low and the US dollar reached a nearly two-year high against the euro as investors ...

Treasury Group commits to Evergreen

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2012
Treasury Group has acquired a minority equity interest in the absolute return manager, Evergreen Capital Partners. Treasury Group (TRG) has acquired a 30% stake in Evergreen in return for an upfront payment of $1.4 million plus a further deferred amount ...

Demand for US Treasuries outstrips supply

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2012
Turbulence in European debt markets is pushing global investors back towards US Treasury bonds, with demand so high that supply can't keep up. The effect is so extreme that Bloomberg has reported yields are being compressed to what are now 10-year lows. ...

Managers confident on value as China PMI contracts

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012
... saying major resource stocks have underperformed and are currently cheap. Andrew Dalrymple, chief investment officer at Treasury Group-backed Aubrey Capital Management however believes that, consistent with the behavioural change resulting from rising ...