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BNY Mellon's Ankura wins Russell Aus Eq mandate

NEWS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2010
... mandate forms part of Russell's newly launched Australian Shares Enhanced Income Fund and follows Ankura's winning of a high yield mandate from ipac in May. "This strategy has been developed to recognise both the increase in demand for income focused ...

Future Fund ex-strategy chief opens Scarce Capital

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2010
... where people value it more." For example, Day said that there's a US-based rail container business that offers investors a yield of 18 per cent, yet nobody wants to touch it. "It wasn't a sexy investment but there was an 18 per cent yield there and yet ...

Lower returns outlook will change allocation choices

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 NOV 2010
The lower returns outlook will force trustees to look further afield for capital growth, even into areas that they previously ignored or rejected. It's not just an Australian phenomenon either as it's happening to trustees the world over, said Stephane ...

Member switching yields winners and losers

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 16 NOV 2010
A new SuperSA study shows 93 per cent of Triple S members chose to stay in the default balanced option during the GFC - while 7 per cent opted to put their money in different strategies. SuperSA's Triple S members who switched investment options during ...

Thanks but no thanks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 NOV 2010
... back! Paaa-lease. No wonder the equity market is confused. But not the market for US Treasuries. The benchmark 10-year bond yield rose by 16 bps to 2.95 per cent last night - the highest level in three months. You know something's wrong when yields rise ...

Invesco makes the case for global REITs

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 12 NOV 2010
... performance for the global REIT market in the years ahead. He said that the US REIT market has benefited from the "reach for yield" among investors with Treasury and corporate bond rates at historic lows, and money market yields near zero. "In our retail ...

CBA plans retail bond offering

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 9 NOV 2010
... basis points over the 90-day bank bill rate in the offering. Using yesterday's closing rate, that would imply a starting yield of around 6.2 per cent. Last week, the bank faced a political storm after it hiked its variable home loans by 45 basis points ...

Head faked again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 NOV 2010
"Well, it's a three step process. First, you think I'm going left. But I don't. So now you're thinking, am I going to go right or even confuse him by going left. So I go left again. Now you think I'm finally gonna go right but what I'm really gonna ...

More defensive products hit marketplace

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 1 NOV 2010
... two managers; Aberdeen Asset Management and Western Asset Management. Meanwhile, Dixon has launched its Australian Masters Yield Fund, which will invest in "the very attractive opportunities for investors who are prepared to invest a bit more broadly ...

Goldilocks QE2

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 OCT 2010
Take this Friday off. For while we can talk... discuss... and argue about fresh economic stats, earnings reports, survey data out of America or even Fed speak, all these would no longer matter in less than one week from now. America's political landscape ...