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Superannuation reforms will affect few: ASFA

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2013
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) said the government reforms on superannuation announced last week will affect few individuals with less than $2 million in super. ASFA said the confusion has arisen due to the fact that many ...

No promises, promises for Kuroda

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2013

First quarter (w)innings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2013
It's quite fitting that we concluded the first three months of the year 2013 munching on egg-shaped chocolates - big and small - for if the first quarter is anything to go by, financial markets could look forward to more kinder surprises for the rest ...

Asian bonds insulated from Cyprus turmoil

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013
Asian bond yields experienced much lower volatility in the wake of the uncertainty which surrounded the Cypriot debt talks, according to HSBC Global Asset Management. HSBC chief investment officer for fixed income in Asia Pacific Cecilia Chan says that ...

Treasuries - safe but not so rewarding

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2013
... this latest bout of financial market volatility has brought not a few investors back into the safety of US Treasuries. The yield on benchmark 10-year US Treasuries dipped below 2.0% on the Cyprus conundrum after gradually edging up over 2.0% just the ...

EM debt funds burst bond bubble fears

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2013
Despite fears of a global bond bubble, investors have poured into emerging market debt at record rates. Last year was the most successful on record for the asset class with inflows reaching more than $94 billion and average returns were in excess of ...

RARE Infra doubles assets, boosts staff

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAR 2013
... followed over the long-term. "People are now focusing on absolute performance and assets with low volatility but high income yield - we tick all of these boxes," he said. RARE now manages around $4.5 billion in assets on behalf of local clients and the ...

Quantum makes T1 bonds available to retail investors

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAR 2013
Fund manager Quantum has launched a product that allows retail investors to access some of the high yielding T1 bonds issued by the four major trading banks. "This is the opportunity that we saw - to release a product that gave retail investors the ...

Fund house publishes full holdings online

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAR 2013
... individual companies McCallum holds, Bedlam publishes other useful information such as the stocks' price-to-earnings ratios, yield and net debt-to-equity ratios. And the policy has not distracted the fund manager from its main job - delivering returns ...

The Celtic Tiger gets back its roar

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAR 2013
It's beginning to sound like a broken record ever since the Dow broke its 2007 record on the 5th of March 2013...and talks about the Dow are yet to stop - whether it'll continue heading higher, consolidate or reverse at some point. Guilty, your honour! ...