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Bunga bunga

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 FEB 2011
... 4.5 per cent in the previous year. Indonesia received an upgrade in its sovereign credit rating to one below investment grade from Fitch and Moody's for its efforts. And it's not only in America and Europe and Asia. The Egyptian turmoil appears to have ...

NAB Super restructures alternatives portfolio

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 12 NOV 2010
... floating rate credit exposure from the fixed interest asset class to alternatives. This portfolio is made up of both investment grade (lower risk), and sub investment (higher risk) corporate bond exposure. The move was made to lower the potential volatility ...

Subscriber-pays ratings approach more critical: van Eyk

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2010
... (3,376) by Lonsec, 554 (1,775) by S&P, and 303 (4,111) by Morningstar. Of these, van Eyk rates 52 per cent as investment grade versus 87 per cent, 89 per cent, 93 per cent and 95 per cent by S&P, Lonsec, Morningstar and Zenith, respectively. "The fact ...

UBS head of credit research joins QIC

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 24 AUG 2010
... appointed former UBS Global Asset Management head of credit research, Asia Pacific, Philip Miall, as head of investment grade credit in the firm's global fixed interest boutique. Miall will undertake investment grade credit research and analysis at QIC. ...

Converting to convertible bonds

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 16 AUG 2010
... investors with US$ mandates may have avoided the asset class because relatively limited issuance has been in the investment grade space during the post-crisis era. This year, only 10 per cent of new issuance of US dollar convertibles has been in the ...

SSgA cuts securities lending on fixed income funds

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUL 2010
... open positions in the program. According to the statement, the portfolios affected include the SSgA World Broad Investment Grade Index Fund; SSgA World Government Bond Index Fund; SSgA EMU Government Bond Index Fund; SSgA UK Government Bond Index Fund ...

H3 Global hits $250m mark

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2010
... calibre in the future." The fund manager's Global Commodities fund is rated 'four stars' by Standard & Poor's and 'investment grade' by Lonsec while its Global Strategies fund is rated 'three stars' by Standard & Poor's. H3 Global Advisors funds don't ...

Challenger launches Bentham

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2010
... Professional Global Income Fund, which invests in bank capital securities, global convertible bonds, syndicated loans, investment grade corporate debt securities, high yield bonds and cash. At least 50 per cent of the portfolio is investment-grade. They ...

Orion still well regarded despite downgrade: CEO

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2010
... group review last month. Orion's fund was the only strategy to be downgraded. Morningstar continue to have an 'investment grade' rating on Orion's strategy.

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2010
... lowering its rating on Greece's debt to BB+ from BBB-. That means that the country's debt does not carry the investment grade tag. The agency is also warning debtholders that they only have an average chance of between 30 to 50 per cent of getting their ...