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AvSuper builds on its AllianceBernstein mandate

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2011
... enhance the fund's current Australian Value mandate with AllianceBernstein and direct the portfolio towards higher paying yield companies. "Franked Australian Value is one of the first services to take advantage of the growing interest in improving after-tax ...

Dead calm

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2011
... sovereign debt crisis remains a crisis. The cost of three-month Spanish bills auctioned last night more than doubled and the yield of its two-year bonds surged to its highest level since 2003. Belgian 10-year yields jumped to more than 5%. Greece is ...

Australian Unity offers instos retirement investment opportunities

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 22 NOV 2011
... they are property assets, they have characteristics very similar to bonds with capital gain at the end but a strong running yield year-on-year." According to Alcorn, there is a chronic undersupply of retirement villages in Australia, with only around ...

Lookin' for trouble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 NOV 2011
My mother once - yes, only once - told me that if you go out looking for trouble, you're gonna find one. That's exactly what happened in the financial markets while we were sleeping. Not content with the troubles plaguing Europa, investors looked to ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 22 NOV 2011
... lost 3.35 per cent and France's CAC-40 dropped 3.41 per cent. Meanwhile, Spanish government borrowing costs rose, with the yield or rate of return earned by holders of benchmark 10-year government bonds rising to 6.514 per cent in evening trading, from ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 NOV 2011
... France faced a sharp spike in borrowing costs, in a dangerous new phase as the debt crisis showed new signs of spreading. The yield or rate of return on Italy's 10-year government bonds continued near the seven per cent danger level considered unsustainable ...

More of the same

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2011
... sentiment) down while real stats out of America pull the other way. Europe push. European bond yields spiked anew after the yield on new 10-year bonds Spain auctioned last night jumped to 7%. A new day, same trepidation, same fear over contagion. This ...

Instos embrace low volatility equity portfolios

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2011
Low-volatility equity portfolios may be the answer to some institutional investor prayers, according to AllianceBernstein's head of quantitative research, with strength in downside protection balanced with trending upward markets. Kent Hargis, AllianceBernstein's ...

Flight to quality boosts PIMCO inflows

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2011
... remain the core allocation of fixed income portfolios but there has also been increasing interest in corporate debt and high yield solutions for the satellite portion of portfolios as an alternative to equities." While demand spiked following periods ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2011
SYDNEY - The Australian market looks set to open higher, despite world stock markets coming under pressure as the eurozone debt crisis continues to push most European government borrowing costs dangerously higher. At 0800 AEDT on Thursday, the December ...