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While we wait for payrolls

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2010
Whew! Thank goodness we got some reprieve from the avalanche of economic data released over the past few days. Wall Street closed flat to up overnight as it nervously awaits what the mother of all economic releases - the US Non-farm Payrolls report ...

Russell ups alternatives exposure

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2010
... exciting new investment opportunity and is likely to become more mainstream over the next 10 years. The Global Strategic Yield Fund - $A Hedged provides an active multi-manager vehicle for an opportunistic high-yield and emerging markets debt exposure. ...

Aus Unity improves customer software

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2010
Australian Unity has hired Sword Ciboodle to improve its customer related business software and services. The financial services firm has developed a roadmap to deploy Sword Ciboodle across a number of businesses, with in initial focus on campaign management ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2010
... prices rose. Investors were betting that a weak recovery will force the Federal Reserve to keep interest rates low. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note, which moves opposite its price, fell to 3.73 percent from 3.80 percent late Monday. ...

Austock appoints former Merrill chief

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2010
... year. This announcement came after the group's asset management division, which was later sold, was forced to close the High Yield fund following a rise in redemption requests from investors.

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2010
... European stock exchanges inched ahead on Monday in cautious trading as eurozone ministers held talks that investors hope will yield concrete measures to help Greece overcome its financial crisis. In Brussels, pressure was mounting on Greece to take tougher ...

Trichet to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2010
"Efxaristo para poli!" That's Greek for thank you very much. What in the world could possibly make European Central Bank President (ECB) Jean-Claude Trichet abandoned the summer sunshine in Sydney - and the company of the 23 other central representatives ...

Miranda Kerr and the market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2010
... potato. With the Greek problem seemingly attended to, financial markets passed the hot potato to Portugal, sending its bond yield premium over German bunds to its highest level since 1997. Spain and Ireland also got burnt as financial markets seek out ...

Alternatives by any other name

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2010
... property and infrastructure - both listed and unlisted - as tangible assets or investments that derive returns largely from the yield on a physical asset. Meanwhile, the California Public Employees' Retirement System, the largest pension fund in the ...

Gold's dimming lustre

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2010
... inflation. And rising inflation is a gold's best friend. The inflation premium - measured as the difference between the yield on US 10-year Treasury Inflation Protected Securities and the regular US 10-year Treasury bond yield -- has eased slightly after ...