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Franklin Templeton launches new global fixed income fund

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2012
... rate debt securities issued by governments and corporations worldwide and can have up to a 20% tactical allocation to high yield, bank loan and emerging market credits based on relative value between fixed income sectors at any given time. The fund has ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2012
The Australian market looks set to open higher despite strong falls on Tuesday and a mixed performance on Wall Street overnight amid concern about Greece's debt crisis and a US "fiscal cliff" of spending cuts and tax hikes at year-end which threaten ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2012
Australian stocks are set for a weak start on Monday as world markets are dominated by concerns about the looming "fiscal cliff" in the United States. US lawmakers have until December 31 to work out a compromise to avoid tax increases and government ...

Successful Telstra bond issue to open flood gates for big banks

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012
... Lincoln Indictors' Elio D'Amato. The five-year coupons, the first from the company since 2005, were sold to the market at a yield of 4%. D'Amato, managing director of market research specialist Lincoln Indicators believes that falling term-deposit rates ...

The song remains the same

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012
The results are all in. The week of punting is over... almost. And what have we got? A few lucky ones who gambled their life savings on "Green Moon" to win the Melbourne Cup and those who chose the seven winning numbers in Australia's A$100 million ...

Returns without volatility, you're not dreamin

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2012
... can use low volatility strategies to lower their risk level and thus free up the risk budget for other assets such as high yield bonds. Robeco has been investing into emerging market for 75 years. They currently manage approximately A$16 billion in quantitative ...

Poisoned chalice awaits next US president

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012
Whatever the outcome of the US election, the President will have to face up to fiscal cliff or jeopardise the global recovery, according to Standard Life Investment's Andrew Milligan. With both presidential candidates rounding the final corner of their ...

Triple bypass needed to resurrect NAB's UK business

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2012
... be in better shape. "NAB is the least preferred of the big Australian banks but investors who hold it are still getting a yield far in excess of that available on term deposits," D'Amato said. "Shareholders might be getting impatient but they shouldn't ...

Market wrap early AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2012
... slide. The rate of return for investors on Spanish 10-year bonds dropped to 5.616 percent from 5.670 per cent on Tuesday. The yield on 10-year Italian bonds slid to 4.960 per cent from 4.994 per cent. The euro drifted upwards to $1.2966 from $1.2959 ...

Tyndall develops fixed income info kit

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2012
... also include an information booklet for consumers covering areas such as common terminology, what is meant by yields and yield curves, and its role in a diversified portfolio. The booklet will only be available to clients through their adviser. Roger ...