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Asia ushers 2010 with caution

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2010
... weaker global banking system. As global economies recover, businesses are seeking new funding and roll-over financing. Private debt lending rates are already in their low to high teens, and at these levels, the supply of credit will be filled by creditors ...

Super must become more efficient: PM

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2009
... savings are critical to two looming national challenges: to increase domestic investments and reduce our foreign private debt; to alleviate fiscal pressures associated with an ageing population," he said. But whatever happens to superannuation as part ...

It's all about China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2009
... output this year. It could increase further as the Fed continues to mint dollars to buy government debt used to buy private debt and support the economy. Timmy has assured China that the US is committed to reducing the budget deficit to 3 per cent by....?. ...

Defensive fixed income wins

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2008
... last 12 to18 months the 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 four-letter word

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2007
... the last five years, Australian households have doubled the amount they owe. Charlton notes that with the total of private debt in Australia around $150 billion, our 8 million households on average are spending more that 10 per cent of their after tax ...

ATO fines SMSF $62k

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2007
... assets to pay their personal debt. The group has been fined $30,000 after selling property under Axent to repay a private debt and an additional $32,500 in costs for breaching fund rules. Raelene Vivian, deputy commissioner, said the Tax Office was focusing ...

United Funds management's first birthday delivers returns

... diversification. A high yield fund typically invests in high yielding assets such as corporate bonds, hybrids and unlisted private debt. Due to the floating rate nature of these securities they usually hold less interest rate risk than traditional bonds. ...

Direct investment fund wins first mandates

... Brown in a portfolio of direct assets. Assets range across region, sector and maturity, and include private equity, private debt, infrastructure, direct property, real assets and other long-term investments. Traditional concerns among investors with ...

AMP Henderson launches Enhanced Yield Fund

WITH AAP  |  MONDAY, 28 JUL 2003
... Enhanced Yield Fund was unique in the market in that it provides investor access to three main asset classes including private debt, hybrid corporate debt and listed property trusts (LPT). AMP Henderson's senior portfolio manager (structured and high ...