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More Australians to invest in China

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2015
... political ramifications of holding a significant amount of its nearly $4 trillion in foreign exchange reserves in US government bonds. To mitigate this, he said, more of China's claims on the US should be denominated in RMB, and "one way for China to ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2014
... is going to be the European Central Bank's decision to broaden out its so called quantitative easing, to buy government bonds. "Hopefully, Greece can be quarantined a bit." The big four banks were a key drag on the market, and at 1200 AEDT Westpac was ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 28 NOV 2014
... 6,723.42 points. A signal by a senior ECB official on Wednesday that the central bank could begin major purchases of government bonds of eurozone countries sent the yields, or interest paid, on them down as investors tried to lock in returns. HONG KONG ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2014
... - Europe's main stock markets closed flat after the European Central Bank signalled it could begin purchasing government bonds, but not until 2015. The Frankfurt-based ECB will be able to gauge early 2015 whether it needs to start buying sovereign bonds ...

FEATURE: A new world order in active management

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014
... a near 20% annualised return over the course of his career, he wants 10% of his estate invested in short-term government bonds and the rest allocated to a simple S&P 500 index fund when he dies. The comments led index fund provider Vanguard to declare ...

Significant Investor Visa changes to boost venture capital

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2014
... and Investment Minister Andrew Robb indicated the government plans relax the requirements to invest in low risk government bonds, The Australian reported. The new Premium Investor Visa is expected to come into effect from July 2015, and will allow applicants ...

Sunrise, sunset

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014
... anymore, since the BOJ has dirtied the bond market waters with its purchases - "The Bank will purchase Japanese government bonds (JGBs) so that their amount outstanding will increase at an annual pace of about 50 trillion yen...". JGB investors certainly ...

ASX tees up $65m Yieldbroker deal

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2014
... Australian and New Zealand debt securities and interest rate derivatives, including Australian government and semi-government bonds, treasury notes, corporate bonds, floating rate notes, New Zealand government bonds, interest rate swaps, overnight index ...

Multi-asset emerging market approach halves volatility

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2014
... restricted and can invest in any or all of emerging markets equities, dollar sovereign bonds, local currency government bonds, corporate dollar bonds, local currency corporate bonds and local currencies. Capital Group senior vice president and head of ...

Australian Ethical launches country's first ethical bond fund

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2014
... Ethical chief investment officer David Macri said. The strategy currently has a 41% allocation to Australian Government bonds, 35% in corporate bonds that meet ethical screen, 18% in State Government bonds from Victoria, SA, NT and ACT and 5% in sovereign ...