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Pressure on yields continues

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012
... the premier's office told Financial Standard the government would consider a range of funding options. Quality corporate bonds are the preferred option for fixed income investors in 2012, according to both AMP's senior investment strategist and portfolio ...

FIIG Securities appoints director

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 29 NOV 2011
... stream. FIIG Securities offers private investors access to Australia's widest range of domestic and international corporate bonds through its DirectBonds service.

PIMCO appoints new vice president

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2011
... PIMCO is better prepared to meet this growing demand," said Wilson. Bowe will cover trading of government bonds, corporate bonds, swaps and options, and will be managing Australian dollar and global portfolios. More than 1,400 people are employed at ...

Fed policy options galore

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2011
... fixed-term loans to banks at low or zero interest, with a wide range of private assets (including, among others, corporate bonds, commercial paper, bank loans, and mortgages) deemed eligible as collateral. Option 6. "...buy foreign government debt... ...

Trading volatility can protect portfolio from big swings

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2011
... "Assets moved in proportion to their betas," he said. "US stocks went down, emerging markets went down even more, corporate bonds went down - but not as much - and Treasury bonds rose," he said. "But what else went up in 2008?" "Gold went up and the ...

Bond broker targets WA planners

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2011
... advice, will give WA planners access to short term products such as bank bills, term deposits, government and corporate bonds and hybrid securities. "West Australia has the strongest economy in the nation and that is likely to continue with the commodities ...

LICs benefit from FOFA

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011
... were 73 LICs trading on the stock exchange. They covered Australian and international equities, private equity, corporate bonds and infrastructure. Robinson said there were only three LICs that covered mining, with rival trust LinQ Resources Fund investing ...

Towers Watson grows team after benefiting from super mergers

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2011
... private loans, purchasing infrastructure debt on the secondary market, mezzanine debt or sub-investment grade corporate bonds." New analysts Jordan Taylor, Deepti Tammareddi and Andrew Tay, will focus on portfolio construction, manager research and client ...

New bond fund targets corporate sector

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2011
... heavily weighted towards domestic financials, while 35% remains in cash for the time being. A total of 26% is in corporate bonds. "We still see good value in the corporate sector from a stability and leverage point of view," said Gavin Goodhand, senior ...

Time for instos to embrace ETFs

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2011
... that were easy to explain to investors. "We are long only, we use single country indexes, small cap warrants, corporate bonds, products that give exposure that we feel comfortable passing onto clients," he said. The ASX confirmed that fixed income ETFs ...