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Benchmarked inflation protection doesn't stack up

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2012
Managing inflation spikes through inflation-lined bonds (ILB) is fundamentally flawed, according to one institutional investment manager. "The traditional approach to managing inflation has been to buy an inflation benchmark, which is typically eight ...

Super assets soar with 17% annual growth rate

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 31 JAN 2012
Australian super assets have rocketed up 17% in annual growth rate in ten years to US$1.3 trillion, or the equivalent of 96% of Australia's GDP, according to the Towers Watson Global Pension Assets Study. Australia's solid result was attributed to its ...

Risk focus needed for sustainable investing: MLC

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 30 JAN 2012
MLC Investment Management has cautioned investors with a penchant for income-heavy portfolios that greater risk diversification and sophisticated strategies are necessary at a time when term deposits on one product reached $400 million. According to ...

Nice one

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 JAN 2012
... 12.8 times - far below their long-term historical average of 14.7 times. Similarly, the Australian equity market's dividend yield of 4.72% offers a premium over the 3.8% currently available on 10-year Australian bonds. Nice one, don't you think? ==================================== ...

Extending the extended extension

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 JAN 2012
Aussie, Ausssie, Aussie! Oi! Oi! Oi! It's time to shake off that hangover all youse blokes and shielas for as we, Australians all, drank and barbecued Australia Day yesterday, the US Federal Reserve gave financial markets another something to celebrate. ...

Happy days

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 JAN 2012
... over." Thank you Dave. And just in case you (or my boss) think that I'm being slack by letting Dave do my work, the earnings yield/bond yield ratio also underscores the equity market's attractive valuation. Taking the inverse of Dave's trailing P/E ratio ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012
Australian shares have added one per cent in early trading as successful debt auctions in Europe and more positive bank earnings in the US buoy optimism. Energy and resources jumped after yields on Spanish bonds contracted sharply in its latest bond ...

Pressure on yields continues

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012
... yields, according to an industry expert. Added pressure from foreign borrowing and high bank demand looks set to distort the yield curve even further, says Roger Bridges, head of fixed income at Tyndall AM. "We just don't have enough there," said Bridges. ...

Fund managers rate Aust equities

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012
While lack of investor confidence and a preference for risk aversion is an obvious impact of the sovereign debt crisis in Europe, the Australian share market is also vulnerable to capital flows are having a distortionary impact, according to fund manager ...

Not so wrong

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012
Something looks wrong - very, very wrong - with how financial markets are conducting themselves nowadays. Investors greeted 2012 with almost universal agreement that the global growth outlook would be worse than it was in 2011 - the World Bank recently ...