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Get into corporate bonds

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2009
High quality corporate bonds will rise and offer a fresh opportunity for Australian investors over the short to medium term, despite an expected surge in government debt issuance, said Aberdeen Asset Management. Aberdeen predicts Australian corporate ...

Get into corporate bonds: Aberdeen

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2009
High quality corporate bonds will rise and offer a unique opportunity for Australian investors over the short to medium term, despite an expected surge in government debt issuance, said Aberdeen Asset Management. Aberdeen predicts Australian corporate ...

Corp bonds dominate UK sales

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2009
... figures found corporate bond funds from M&G and Invesco Perpetual made up 60 per cent of net sales last month. While corporate bonds ruled the sales charts during April and May, there are signs investors are warming back to equities and emerging market ...

FIIG hires fixed income AD

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2009
... Financial Services, Citibank and Banker Trust. Sall will be responsible for the firm's marketing, the sale of corporate bonds and other fixed income investments to clients. FIIG recently expanded the firm's sales and marketing services to cater for the ...

Nationalisation - that ugly word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2009
... policy, the Bank of Japan (BoJ) plans to expand measures to advance corporate funding by outright purchases A-rated corporate bonds held by banks. This is a step up from its previous measure where it accepts lower-grade corporate debt as collateral for ...

Intech fixed interest tops IC survey

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2009
... said. But with the significant falls in nominal bond yields, Needham said 2009 is the year that they will look at corporate bonds again. "We're going to move from a government bond only portfolio to a diversified fixed income portfolio," he said. However ...

Worst of the worst

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2009
... announced that it would begin purchasing up to 50 billion (US$71.5 billion) in assets, including high quality corporate bonds and commercial paper, asset-backed securities and syndicated loans. These will be funded by the sale of UK gilts. And just like ...

Henderson wins $275m fixed income mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2008
... traditional UK benchmarks by investing in global fixed income including in developed and emerging government bonds, corporate bonds, loans, asset backed securities and currencies. The funds will combine relative-value and directional strategies to reduce ...

Canadian pensions down again

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 21 APR 2008
... by 0.2 per cent. "Spreads varied considerably. Real returns bonds generated 5.9 per cent, while longer maturity corporate bonds lost 0.3 per cent," said McDougall.

Fortune favours the prudent

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2008
... start of year lows and they are now above their average level for five years." "However, while the spreads on corporate bonds and other credit investments are higher than earlier in the year, they can only be considered 'cheap' if macroeconomic conditions ...