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Super acting like a SWF: Treasury

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 4 JUL 2011
... savings each year by three per cent of GDP. In a major speech last week on Compulsory Superannuation and National Saving, Treasury researchers David Gruen and Leigh Soding said that despite perceptions of low domestic savings rates, Australia's 24% gross ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011
... dropped as investors left the safety of US government debt for riskier assets such as stocks. The yield on the 10-year US Treasury note rose to 3.05 per cent from 2.93 per cent on Monday, while that on the 30-year bond climbed to 4.33 per cent from 4.28 ...

Market Wrap -Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2011
... April, underscoring the continued weakness of the world's largest economy. Bond prices fell. The yield on the 10-year US Treasury note rose to 2.93 per cent from 2.87 per cent on Friday, while that on the 30-year bond climbed to 4.28 per cent from 4.17 ...

Time to call it quits - again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2011
... the Greeks and the Eurozone got here. Now it's time for a real solution. I thought of suggesting doing what former US Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady did to solve the Latin American crisis back in the late 1980s. It succeeded! Turns out I wasn't the ...

The sound of QE3

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2011
... current level by reinvesting principal payments from agency debt and agency mortgage-backed securities in longer-term Treasury securities. The Committee will continue to roll over the Federal Reserve's holdings of Treasury securities as they mature." ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2011
... contracts. In economics news on Thursday, the Australian Office of Financial Management was due to offer $1 billion of Treasury notes maturing on September 9 2011 and $500 million of Treasury notes maturing on October 21 2011 at tender. In companies ...

Super heavyweights join forces

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2011
Superannuation associations are joining forces to send the Treasury a proposal to remove plans to introduce the proposed $500,000 balance threshold for individuals over age 50. Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA), Self-managed Super ...

ANZ employs GBST platform

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2011
... all types of assets within one system. ANZ will use it to increase transparency and control in processing fixed income, treasury, equities and OTC derivatives assets, and also for central reference data management. GBST said that it had a number of new ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2011
... Stock Exchange. Consolidated volume came to 3.1 billion shares. Bond prices fell slightly. The yield on the 10-year US Treasury note rose to 2.96 per cent from 2.94 per cent on Friday, while that on the 30-year bond was practically unchanged at 4.20 ...

Pollies clash over SG

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2011
... federal politicians receive a superannuation employer contribution of 15.4 per cent. Shorten said that it was opposition treasury spokesman Joe Hockey and his assistant Mathias Cormann that were the main parties involved, stating that Hockey was only ...