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Stocks and bonds agree on recovery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2009
... believe the media, part of the reason why the US equity market rose overnight was because US interest rates - specifically the yield on US 10-year Treasuries - fell while we were sleeping. Rising benchmark rates threaten further improvement in the US ...

Take your pick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2009
The good, the bad and the ugly. Overnight news out of America had something for everybody. Take your pick. Bullish on the economy and the financial markets? Then look no further than the US National Association for Business Economics (NABE) latest survey ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2009
Australian shares are are expected to open lower as caution returned to US markets after Tuesday's unexpected rally. Concerns were fuelled by auto giant General Motors moving further towards bankruptcy. At 0725 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the ...

CAAM eyes credit and currency

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
... released Lonsec report said the firm expects returns over the next three years to be sourced predominantly from duration and yield curve global bond strategies, currency tactics and credit security plays. Previously, the firm mainly derived returns from ...

Ten years is too short: CBI

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
The UK's pension regulator should investigate the funding plans of companies where deficit repayments will take more than 15 years, rather than the current ten, said a key industry body. According to an "eight point action plan" by UK business industry ...

LMW Invest teams up with Denison

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2009
... traditional syndicated property investments to retail investors. An eight level office tower in North Sydney, with forecast fund yield of 9 per cent, is the first building to be syndicated and offered to investors through the Denison LMWI Property Trust ...

Baby boomers eye income equity

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2009
... as well. The Tyndall Australian Share Income Fund aims to provide a tax-effective income stream that exceeds the dividend yield of the S&P/ASX 200 Accumulation Index by 2 per cent per annum over rolling five-year periods. Its secondary objective is to ...

Netwealth drops 13 funds from menu

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
... Australian and international equities following planner feedback. Netwealth has added the Vanguard Australian Shares High Yield Fund, Super Alpha Fund 1 - Wholesale Units, Abacus Storage Fund and Aspen Parks Wholesale Property Fund to the two wraps. ...

Australian RMBS gains appeal

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2009
... these investors to eye Australian RMBSs lies in the fact that the products are usually fairly short dated while tending to yield larger margins over bank books. "If you have a view that interest rates are not going to fall down much further, well then ...

US pension deficit shrinks

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2009
... and bond yields remaining steady. During April, the S&P 500 total return index was up more than 9 per cent and the Mercer Yield Curve mature plan index was down just 4 basis points. "As funded status increases we believe there are opportunities for sponsors ...