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Seven super funds win AAA for entire product range

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2011
Telstra Super, AXA North and QSuper are among seven superannuation funds to have recently gained a AAA rating for all of their superannuation and retirement products from research firm Rainmaker in the last three months. Rainmaker research has reviewed ...

Higher US interest rates possible on downgrade

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2011
... Templeton Fixed Income Group said today. Financial markets are again in decline, spooked by the threat of the US losing its AAA rating on Treasury securities due to the failure of the US Congress to reach agreement on raising the debt ceiling. US markets ...

US pension funds issue debt ultimatum

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2011
... but it must also address the "real problem" of a huge budget deficit, both current and long term. A downgrade from America's AAA rating would leave it behind six counties on the credit scale, the consequences of which would be "very real and very serious," ...

No way USA can't repay

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2011
... reading. But if investors really, truly believe that America will default -- or the most recent scare, that USA will lose its AAA even if a default is averted - and unleash hell in the financial markets, wouldn't we have seen a much bigger drop in equities ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2011
... reduction plan was better, while investors and economists urged a deal to prevent, at least, a downgrade of the country's AAA standing as a borrower, and at worst, Washington being forced to pare 40 per cent of its spending and defaulting on its debt. ...

Credit hits the fan as Moody's puts US on downgrade watch

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2011
... negotiations over the issue, walking out of yesterday's deficit meeting at the White House. Overnight, Moody's placed the AAA credit rating of the US on a review for possible downgrade, raising the possibility it may actually cut its rating within the ...

Knights in shining armour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2011
... from Moody's. Last night, the credit-rater warned that it's put the US under review and could remove one A from America's AAA credit rating as negotiations over raising its US$14.3 trillion borrowing limit continue to stall. Bond markets paid no heed ...

The other Greece

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2011
... market funding in 2013. Oh yes, Moody's is correct. Its latest downgrade of the country's credit rating made it so. Just as its AAA rating of CDOs, mortgaged-backed securities and other structured investments back in the days -- when the GFC stood for ...

New index rates sovereign debt issuers

BLACKROCK RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2011
... and willingness to pay. He said Australia ranked highly thanks to its low level of public debt, which is the lowest of all AAA rated countries. "This is partly due to the good fortune of being highly leveraged to the Asian economies, particularly China," ...

The road to ruin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2011
... consolidation over recent years. As members of the Eurozone, Greece's domestic and foreign currency country ceilings remain at Aaa, as do the ceilings for domestic and foreign currency bank deposits. GDP growth: 5.5 per cent Unemployment rate: 8.0 ...