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Add duration: UBS

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2012
Australian bonds have underperformed their global peers, but now is a good time to start adding them to investment portfolios, said Matthew Johnson, interest rate strategist, UBS. The reality is that currently, we are still trading European sentiment. ...

No change - no mas, no less

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2012
If you have something better to do today do that, rather than expending your time reading what took place in financial markets overnight. It was more of the same -- the exact same suspenseful, seemingly endless wait for policymakers to deliver what ...

Sitting and waiting and still hoping

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2012
Looks like some in Europe's back from their holidays - there's some stirring going on from there again. Germany's Der Spiegel magazine reported that the ECB plans to buy government bonds to place a cap on yields to a pre-set premium over German bunds. ...

Income-seeking investors returning to secured credit

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2012
According to international investment manager Threadneedle Investments (Threadneedle), the positive performance of this asset class is causing some institutional investors to allocate between 5% and 50% to secured credit. Steven Fleming from the investment ...

Renewed appetite for Aussie stocks

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 14 AUG 2012
... Australian equities products led to market cap growth of around 4% for the month of July and net new assets of $57 million. While yield remains popular with investors through high dividend and cash products, greater risk appetite was demonstrated by ...

Fidelity calls rising tide for equities

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2012
Having been bearish on equities for the past 18 months, there is growing evidence for cautious optimism on the part of equity investors. Equities have been pushed down by fears of a European crisis, however equity markets have "switched out of panic ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2012
Australian shares were higher at opening as hope continued for improvement in the European debt crisis. At 1015 AEST on Monday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was up 31.8 points, or 0.74 per cent, at 4,309.1 while the broader All Ordinaries index was ...

The QE Paradox

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012
Indecisions, indecisions... Is this the sound of silence I hear? Investors appear to have stopped on their tracks, unsure of whether the next move would be a jump or a dive. But with momentum blowing on their tail, chances are the uptrend that started ...

Known knowns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2012
It's still many, many sleeps before Christmas yet last night seems to be "the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse." Financial markets generally marked time while we slept, unstirred by fresh ...

Brierley bids for wound-down scheme

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2012
A corporate raider has made a bid for Adelaide Managed Funds Asset Banked Yield Trust, a managed investment scheme in wind-down mode. Mercantile Investments is offering 5.5 cents per share in the fund - for the 87% of units that it does not already ...