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The best forecaster

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2008
... increasing short-term interest rates are normally accompanied by a rise in longer-term yields. The simple mathematics of the yield curve governs the relationship between short- and long-term interest rates.' This was true. At the time, the US Federal ...

UBS Global Access targets tough times

MEDIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2008
... individual stocks. For those expecting a medium-term market recovery, buying exposure referenced to a broad- based index should yield market returns with diversified market risk", said Small. The fund's investments should provide 90 per cent capital ...

QIC changes infrastructure tact

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 11 NOV 2008
... loans at a discounted price," she said. QIC's infrastructure debt strategy involves using leveraged loans rather than high yield bonds. "Leverage loans provide a number of benefits over high yield bonds. A leveraged loan is a senior secured debt and ...

Schroders eyes credit markets

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2008
Schroders is building up its position in high yielding credit - a sharp contrast from the group's underweight allocation to the sector 18 months ago. "Go back 18 months, we didn't want anything to do with credit. The risk premium of high yielding credit ...

Banks to benefit from new FI interface

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 30 OCT 2008
Two leading technology providers, Yieldbroker and Omgeo, have joined forces to offer a fixed income processing platform designed to eliminate manual errors and reduce post-trade operational risks. Electronic trading platform Yieldbroker, which counts ...

Daily funnies

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2008
... 3 per cent did we see the first signs of turnaround during the 1990/91 recession. Lower interest rates generated better yield spreads for banks, debtors saved on interest expenses as they refinanced their debts into loans charging lower interest rates. ...

Grant Samuel Epoch tops global shares survey

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2008
Grant Samuel Epoch Shareholder Yield fund demonstrates the merits of free cash flow (FCF) based investing after it trumped other global equities managers in one of the roughest months in stockmarket history. No doubt the month of October will reveal ...

Chile not so hot on fixed income

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2008
... time than expected," it said in the report. The group cited statistics that in the last three decades, the average annual yield of certain funds has been 9.48 per cent, including in 1995 and 1998 when the same funds suffered negative returns. In addition ...

Perennial bears the bear

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2008
... pay dividends in the future. As of September, Australian shares (ASX200) have been forecast by UBS to be paying a dividend yield of 5.02 per cent over the next year. Finally, Perennial's research also shows that investing ten months after the last six ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2008
The Australian share market is expected to surge at open this morning, with the Australian futures index up over seven per cent, following Wall Street's boom overnight. At 0826 AEDT, the key pointer to the day's trading in Australia, the December SPI ...