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Fund managers feast on billion-dollar debt

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 11 APR 2011
Corporate debt issuance has surged this year giving fund managers billions of dollars worth of diversification in the fixed income market, leading experts have said. Bond fund giant Pacific Investment Management Co (PIMCO) estimates about US$18 billion ...

ISN urges members to seek intra-fund advice

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2011
Industry super funds have started a national advertising campaign across major metropolitan newspapers to urge their members to seek financial advice from their fund. Umbrella group, Industry Super Network (ISN), said the awareness campaign would help ...

Global shares, cat bonds review after Japan quake

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
A large hole has been punched in the Japanese economy by Friday's earthquake, with super funds tightlipped on the possible impact of exposure and advisors looking to their portfolios. Professor Andrew O'Neil, director of the Griffith Asia Institute ...

Oil outlook flips on economy flop

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2011
Dateline 11 March 2011. The "Day of Rage." This was supposed to happen in Saudi Arabia, its end game anticipated to determine of what goes after in the MENA region, the price of crude and the outlook for the global economy. Pure coincidence perhaps ...

Tomorrow comes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2011
Investors may love Wall Street more today than yesterday... but not as much as tomorrow. This was the conclusion you read on this space yesterday. And boy, investors surely loved much more today (yesterday's tomorrow). But lest I get accused on insider ...

Yesterday today tomorrow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2011
"Oh, I love you more today than yesterday." - Diana Ross Yesterday Wall Street dropped big time "on concern rising energy costs will threaten the economic recovery." This was Bloomberg's - and most other financial market commentators' -- interpretation ...

Bad news bear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 FEB 2011
ave the grizzlies driven the dip buyers away? Americans came back from their President's Day holiday and saw that nervy days are back again. The S&P 500 index dropped by 2.1 per cent overnight - its biggest in 6 months - and the VIX or "fear index" ...

Asian funds invest more in Taiwan

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 18 FEB 2011
Fund managers in Asia are predicting big things for Taiwan as improving relations with China look set to open the door to a wealth of investment opportunities. While concerns persist in Asian markets over rising inflation and central bank tightening ...

AMP won't be fifth banking pillar

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 6 DEC 2010
AMP's decision to strengthen wealth management, not banking, should it merge with AXA just made the government's task of bringing more competition in banking that much harder. Craig Dunn, AMP managing director, told ABC television yesterday that the ...

Turkeys, PIGS and Koreans

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 NOV 2010
While investors had no recourse but to leave Americans at peace to bite heartily into their Thanksgiving turkeys - markets were closed - many were still shooting down European PIGS at the same time that Koreans were shooting down each other. After sending ...