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The other Greece

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2011
... other "duh"! Oh and about that warning over giving America a D - investors are so scared they're rushing into US government bonds.

Demand rises for Aussie bonds and cash: AMP

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUN 2011
... "Term deposit rates at 6.5 per cent are an attractive place to be," he said. Demand was also high for Australian government bonds and corporate debt, he said. "A lot of mandates have been in diversified fixed interest, a combination of credit and sovereign ...

The road to ruin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2011
... not materially different from that faced by several other euro area member states... The eligibility of Greek government bonds for use as collateral in ECB operations means that there is an extremely low probability that the government's liquidity ...

Era of uncertainty plagues global markets

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2011
... allocated in clients portfolios," said Briscoe. "From the income side, we don't have the lower bound problem in government bonds in particular so if we are looking for currency appreciation in bonds there is still a lot of runway there. From a cyclical ...

Bad news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2011
... crisis there been resolved? Au contraire, Spain (the big problem child) reportedly wasn't able to sell all the government bonds it wanted to sell even at higher yields. The biggest surprise was of course on Wall Street where equities ended higher because ...

Equities don't work in retirement

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2011
... Rainmaker and SelectingSuper. These returns are only 0.2 per cent above returns now available from risk-free 10 year government bonds. Rainmaker research projecting retirement assets as a share of all superannuation to nearly triple from the 14 per cent ...

Japan bond jitters keep funds guessing

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
... managers assessing their exposure in the wake of the disaster. Japan is the second largest foreign holder of US Government bonds after China, holding $882.3 billion in treasuries as at the end of December 2010. The government will be under pressure to ...

Oil central bank

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2011
... the risk of this impact becoming especially severe." No kinder surprise too in the yield on Portuguese two-year government bonds hitting their highest level -- 7.78 per cent - since the country joined the euro at last night's auction. Investors remain ...

IAS pools $650m in managed accounts

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2011
... intermediaries across a range of security types including Australian equities, hybrids, term deposits, managed funds, government bonds, cash and other selected assets.

New rules on bank liquidity clarified

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2011
... level two could include corporate and covered bonds with a proven record of reliable liquidity as well as other government bonds, and An APRA spokesman said the organisation is talking to the banking industry about the reforms which will take effect ...