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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 ...

Diversification under the microscope

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2007
... securities including residential mortgage backed securities, commercial mortgage backed securities, government and corporate bonds. He reinforced his argument using the barbell risk and return model that encourages more investment in high quality securities ...

LDI spurs growth of bond derivatives

... alternative bond-like assets. "LDI has certainly increased pressure to find long duration, low risk assets such as corporate bonds, infrastructure assets with bond-like profiles and properties with long leases," said Rogers. He added that the demand ...

Putnam banks on fixed income

... preserve capital. The group also favours mortgage and asset-backed securities over investment grade and high yield corporate bonds. Putnam launched its first offerings under its own brand this year and said that its previous strategic alliances with ...

Pimco plans absolute return fixed interest fund

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 25 AUG 2006
... Pimco's existing Extended Markets Fund also looks at higher yielding credit in emerging markets and higher yield corporate bonds, and can purchase B3/B and maintains an average credit quality of BB. Dorrian said the PARS will take a similar approach ...

Too soon for Future Fund asset allocation calls: Murray

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAY 2006
Infrastructure, alternatives and Government and corporate bonds are on the Future Fund agenda, but Fund chairman David Murray is still giving no clues about the possible appointment of a new chief executive officer. Murray was also no closer to disclosing ...

Daily economic update

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAY 2006
... US$90.5 billion in the previous month. Purchases of US Treasuries were just US$3.1 billion in March but buying of US corporate bonds surged to US$48.101 billion while purchases of agencies increased to US$19 billion. While the total US securities purchased ...