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Legalsuper continues mandate restructure

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 6 SEP 2010
Legalsuper lowers its total investment costs across several investment options following another round of mandate changes. The fund has terminated mandates with three fund managers totaling $62 million. This included a $38 million fixed interest mandate ...

Fixed income prone to emotion-led choices

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 6 SEP 2010
According to the fourth research paper on "Greed and Fear" released by Tyndall Investments, investor psychology is very much a force in today's fixed income market - not just in equities. Tyndall noted that investors need to adopt long-term strategies ...

Basis Yield lawsuit continues

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2010
Basis Yield Alpha Fund (Master) (BYAFM) released a statement responding to the Goldman Sachs motion to dismiss BYAFM's security fraud suit that is currently pending in federal court in New York. Goldman Sachs has now argued that the case is a foreign ...

Bond rush

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 AUG 2010
... Yields on US government bonds with 5, 10 and 30-year maturities are back down to their levels at the height of the GFC. The yield on two-year Treasuries dropped to 0.48 per cent - the lowest on record. This implies two things. Either the sky is about ...

Hung

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 AUG 2010
... its floating exchange rate and debt and deficit one of the lowest in the western world - what sovereign risk? True, the yield on 10-year Australian bonds increased from 4.92 per cent just before Saturday's elections to 4.98 per cent this morning. I don't ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 AUG 2010
... 9.65 billion. US Treasuries prices rose as investors moved out of riskier assets into safe-haven government debt, with the yield on the two-year Treasury note falling to a record low. In the currency markets investors flocked to safe havens, such as ...

Infra bonds get conditional industry support

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 AUG 2010
The Coalition's plan to issue infrastructure bonds that could raise $20 billion for infrastructure projects has been cautiously endorsed by Australia's largest fixed income managers. Under the plan, bonds issued to fund projects approved by Infrastructure ...

Avoid high yield traps: State Street

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 16 AUG 2010
... should be cautious when looking to add stocks with misleadingly high dividend yields to their portfolios, as the higher yield is often a result of significant price declines rather than increases in dividends paid. "Dividends can provide an important ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 12 AUG 2010
... industrial average fell 265 points, its biggest drop in six weeks, and all the major indices fell more than two per cent. The yield on the Treasury's 10-year note fell to its lowest level since March 2009 as investors worried about the economy and avoiding ...

Bending it like Bernanke

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 AUG 2010
You asked for it! Mo' money's in the mail. Bernanke bends to the markets. Just when we thought we've seen it all, along comes the Fed kowtowing to the whims of the financial markets. Yes Virginia, the Fed announced that it would reinvest the proceeds ...