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The global recession we have to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2008
Central banks threw in the kitchen sink. In a coordinated move, six major world central banks each cut their benchmark target interest rate by 50 basis points in efforts to stem the global panic. The US Federal Reserve lowered the fed funds rate to ...

Central Banks must unite

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2008
... economy turned around during the 1990/91 recession after deep cuts in interest rates. Lower interest rates generated better yield spreads for banks, debtors saved on interest expenses as they refinanced their debts into loans charging lower interest ...

Fed on Zero Interest Rate Policy?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 OCT 2008
... recession. In Australia, interest rates were dropped from 17.5 per cent to 4.75 per cent. Lower interest rates generated better yield spreads for banks, debtors saved on interest expenses as they refinanced their debts into loans charging lower interest ...

APRA rebuffs super stats critics

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2008
APRA has smacked down criticism by retail groups that the regulator's superannuation fund performance research is flawed. Ross Jones, APRA deputy chairman, in a letter accompanying the release of their report, A Response to [the] Review of APRA's Investment ...

Defensive fixed income wins

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2008
... firm has been communicating with advisers on the pitfalls of investing in certain high risk private debt, hybrid or high yield products. "We believed that the fixed income markets weren't offering a lot of returns for the risk that was on the table," ...

Cuscal targets super as profit soars

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2008
... return on equity also received a boost, increasing from 10.2 per cent to 10.3 per cent in 2007/08. The 12.5 per cent dividend yield remained unchanged from the previous year. Despite the positive results, Cuscal's earnings from the securitisation business ...

Funny Mae, Froggy Mac

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2008
... be managed to maximise shareholder returns. While Treasury is assured of a quarterly dividend payment and a 10 per cent yield on its preferred stock holdings (again, good for taxpayers), existing holders are not going to receive any dividend payment ...

Northern Trust exposes fixed income assets

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2008
... Trust's online reporting system Passport, uses three data characteristics including instrument type as well as duration and yield data to boost precision. "Increasingly, the trend is for asset managers to provide more performance data to institutional ...

Pax fined for SRI breach

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2008
... companies involved with producing weapons, alcohol, tobacco or gambling products. For example, in 2004, for Pax World's High Yield fund, the group bought shares in a shipping company that derived some revenue from alcohol and gambling. "Advisers simply ...

Liquidity jitters raise income yield

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2008
The running yield across Putnam's income funds has trebled from less than 1 per cent above cash to more than 3 per cent above cash and, according to the fund manager, the fixed income market is throwing up opportunities it hasn't seen in 20 years. "Many ...