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Whac-a-mole 2.0

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 NOV 2010
... air was ripe with speculation as to which financial institution's head - Bear Sterns, Fannie/Freddie, AIG - the US Fed/Treasury tandem would whack next with billions of dollars of taxpayers' money. As is to be expected whac-a-mole 2.0 is an upgraded ...

Thanks but no thanks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 NOV 2010
... up and pushes America into a double-dip. What? Not the DD-word again! These are both very logical rationales for the Treasury markets' negative reaction - more so, now that Greece and Ireland (perhaps, the entire Eurozone) and their deficits are back ...

Invesco makes the case for global REITs

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 12 NOV 2010
... market in the years ahead. He said that the US REIT market has benefited from the "reach for yield" among investors with Treasury and corporate bond rates at historic lows, and money market yields near zero. "In our retail funds in the US we have seen ...

Lookin' good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 NOV 2010
... Refinancing applications jumped 6.0 per cent over the month 53.0 per cent in the year. You want more good news? The US Treasury reported that the US budget deficit dropped to US$140.4 billion in October from US$176.4 billion a year ago. And why is this ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 11 NOV 2010
... expectations for November. The Australian Office of Financial Management is scheduled to auction a total of $2.2 billion in Treasury notes. This will comprise $1 billion of notes maturing on January 21, 2011, $600 million of notes maturing on February ...

Better boring than bubble

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 9 NOV 2010
... manages $350 million on behalf of mostly retail investors and is one of the boutique funds part-owned and operated by Treasury Group.

The lure of the boutique

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 8 NOV 2010
... haven't announced a new role. S&P said the boutique phenomenon locally, which has seen the likes of Ascalon, nabInvest, Treasury Group and Challenger establish themselves as viable incubation businesses, providing institutional support for separately ...

QE2 is Gold(ilocks)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 NOV 2010
... the markets but big enough to maybe jumpstart the recovery engine. The US Federal Reserve announced a US$600 billion Treasury package that would be drip-fed to the economy at the rate of US$75 billion per month over eight months. This is in addition ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 NOV 2010
... Industries releases car sales figures for October, and the Australian Office of Financial Management issues $1 billion of Treasury Notes, maturing on January 21, 2011, and $600 million of Treasury Notes, maturing on February 25, 2011. In equities news ...

EISS takes over FuturePlus

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 2 NOV 2010
... conflict between the two funds earlier this year, when an unconfirmed report said EISS proposed a merger with LGS to the Treasury, without LGS' knowledge. The proposed merger did not come to fruition, although it is understood that the tension between ...