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Quantum makes T1 bonds available to retail investors

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAR 2013
... launched a product that allows retail investors to access some of the high yielding T1 bonds issued by the four major trading banks. "This is the opportunity that we saw - to release a product that gave retail investors the ability to diversify their ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAR 2013
... adviser Michael Heffernan said a strong rise for Myer shares was a highlight of an otherwise lacklustre open to the day's trading. The retailer posted a better than expected first half profit of $88 million. "The market has greeted it particularly well," ...

AMP Capital appoints new Asian portfolio manager

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAR 2013
... on the early progress we've made so far following the team move to Hong Kong." AMP Capital also established an equities-trading desk in Chicago in November last year in a move which the funds manager said would provide superior market access.

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAR 2013
... points, or 0.09 per cent, to 3,245.12. Stocks overcame an early loss Wednesday, having edged lower at the start of the trading day despite an unexpectedly strong increase in US consumer spending last month. Americans spent at the fastest pace in five ...

UK multi-asset favourite pushes for super fund mandates

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2013
... wider themes the management expect to play out over a period of three years. It's free to make use of derivatives and pair trading strategies to hedge out market risk. One such theme that the fund is playing is based on the management's assumption that ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2013
... corporate earnings and continuing economic stimulus from the Federal Reserve are also supporting demand for stocks. LONDON - Trading on European stock markets produced mixed results as poor British economic data competed with better news from Spain ...

Refresher pause?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2013
... 2007 summit. And just when we thought, it would be there today or tomorrow, it slips a few points. The good news is that trading activity on Wall Street overnight very much looked like it's only a refresher pause. After dipping by as much as 0.51% in ...

SSgA launches global equity ETFs

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2013
... (ETFs), giving Aussie investors cheap access to international equities. The SPDR S&P World ex-Australia ETF will begin trading on the ASX in the coming weeks with the SPDR S&P World ex-Australia (Hedged) ETF following shortly after. "Many investors already ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2013
... the moment," he said. "Yesterday what was driving the gains was some big moves in some banks - we had Commonwealth Bank trading through $70. "We just see that there's a little bit of nervousness there in the financial stocks today. "That's probably what ...

Still the best game in town

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2013
... for its usual alternative - government bonds - is more than double that. US government 10-year bond yields are currently trading at a P/E of 48.5 times -- historically, the P/E on long bonds trade only in their teens. To be sure, sometime, somewhere ...