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State Super invests $270m in Epoch fund

COMNPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2009
State Super Financial Services has injected $270 million into Epoch Investment Partners' Global Equity Shareholder Yield strategy. The SSFS mandate will be managed by Epoch's Eric Sappenfield, managing director and portfolio manager. "Epoch's investment ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2009
... report weighed on bond prices, pushing yields higher. The benchmark 10-year Treasury note fell about a point, pushing its yield up to 3.48 per cent from 3.38 per cent late on Thursday. LONDON - European stock markets rose on Friday on sharply better ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2009
... Nasdaq composite index ended 11.89 points lower, by 0.54 per cent, at 2,173.14. Bond prices fell, pushing yields higher. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note rose to 3.37 per cent from 3.32 per cent late Wednesday. The dollar mostly rose ...

Governments could cause next GFC

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2009
The developed world's governments could be the perpetrator of the next GFC as unchecked debt and overspending take their toll, warns an expert. Martin Barnes, an investment veteran and managing editor of Bank Credit Analyst Research, told an IMCA conference ...

Desert Storm

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2009
"You picked a fine time to leave me, Lucille. With four hungry children and crops in the field. I've had some bad times, lived through some sad times, But this time the hurting won't heal. You picked a fine time to leave me, Lucille." --Kenny Rogers ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2009
... greenback-denominated commodities such as crude oil more expensive for buyers using other currencies. The bond market also fell. The yield on the 10-year US Treasury bond rose to 3.356 per cent from 3.349 per cent Thursday and that on the 30-year bond ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2009
... cent, to 1,109.13, while the Nasdaq composite index rose 2.75, or 0.12 per cent, to 2,200.6. Bond prices mostly fell. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note, which moves opposite its price, rose to 3.35 per cent from 3.34 per cent late Monday. ...

Mickey money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2009
... rates at record lows, it may take awhile and so many arrows (rate hikes) before equities expire. The current slope of the US yield curve attests to this. The spread between US long-term interest rates and short ones is now back to levels last seen in ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2009
... index rose 2.3 per cent for the week, while the Nasdaq added 2.6 per cent. Bonds mostly rose, pushing yields lower. The yield on the 10-year note fell to 3.43 per cent from 3.45 per cent late on Thursday. LONDON - European stock markets closed higher ...

Equities could deliver zero returns: JANA

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2009
JANA's longtime investment expert, Ken Marshman, predicts there's a 25 per cent chance that equities as an asset class will deliver low to zero returns over the next 10 years - a grim reality that should spur trustees to start lowering the risk in their ...