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Super sector turning to dedicated long-term lenders

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2012
... handle long term investments, said Holm. "The downside of private debt is that it's illiquid. Equities are liquid, government bonds are liquid, but private debt illiquid. "What we would say though, is that the price of liquidity is volatility." Balmain ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2012
... 35 index plunged by 2.58 per cent to a nine-year low of 6090.40 points as the interest rate on Spanish 10-year government bonds hit 6.703 per cent - which is unsustainable over the longer term. The European single currency settled at $1.2403 after falling ...

Australia's finely balanced $376bn budget

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2012
... of the politics of the budget, bond markets have already responded positively by lowering yields on Australian government bonds to their lowest level in more than 40 years, a trend that is expected to add to pressure on the Reserve Bank to keep lowering ...

GESB awards $2.3bn in bond mandates

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2012
... global investment grade. Wellington Management Company was the biggest winner, with $706m awarded for global government bonds management and $432m for management of global investment grade bonds. Franklin Templeton gained $714m in funds for management ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2012
... flat. With the eurozone debt crisis back in focus, investors are looking to a sale of Spain's benchmark 10-year government bonds later in the day for an indication of market confidence in the under-pressure country. Asia rallied on Wednesday after Madrid ...

YBR launches savings fund

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012
... global shares, taking a large hit during the crisis. "Yet over the last 25 years, safe investments like Australian government bonds have yielded better total returns than global shares with substantially lower risk of loss." YBR said that it was time ...

Best friends forever

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012
... becomes necessary, the ECB still had the Securities Market Programme (SMP) in place that would allow it to purchase government bonds from euro area member countries. And not to be left out, the Bank of Japan also promised to "powerful easing" to ensure ...

Indonesian inflation falls to 4.25pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2012
... data, said Mandiri. "We suggest investors overweight on corporate bonds due to the relatively low yields [of] government bonds in the secondary market [will force] the government [to] be overwhelmingly reliant on foreign investors and Bank Indonesia," ...

The Fed, the ECB and the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2012
... becomes necessary, the ECB still had the Securities Market Programme (SMP) in place that would allow it to purchase government bonds from euro area member countries. Back home, calls are growing for our own central bank to stop hinting at a rate cut ...

Govt bonds reach $237bn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 2 APR 2012
Australian commonwealth government bonds on issue have reached $237 billion, ranking approximately 100 from the world's 230 economies. Treasury bonds make up 87% of this total, indexed and non-indexed treasury notes 6% each with 1% in other securities ...