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AXA buys Challenger's Genesys

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2008
... by approximately $1.25 billion of assets, comprising around $625 million in cash and another $625 million in investment grade fixed income assets. Analysts in turn are giving the nod to the asset swap with Goldman Sachs JBWere stating the deal made "perfect ...

AAI launches the Art Trust

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2008
... fund's performance would not be exposed to financial market downturns or liquidity crises. Aegis gave the fund an 'investment grade' rating and said although the fund would not suit investors which require a regular income stream, there was high potential ...

US Fed back in the lead

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2008
... collateral eligible for its lending. In one program, it decided to give favorable lending terms not just on the best investment grade bonds, but also on securities that are just barely investment grade. "It has made financing available to non-bank primary ...

UBS redefines fixed income

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2008
... group of four diversified fixed income investments including short-term interest rates, long-term interest rates, investment grade credit and interest rate differentials. Fixed Income Plus should be considered a medium term investment and will be available ...

Western Asset repositions for 2008

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2008
... Global fixed income manager, Western Asset Management, has weighted its portfolio towards European financial investment grade credit and mortgage backed securities to continue its positive return performance in 2008. "In terms of strategy we're going ...

The long and the short of JANA

Lonsec has upgraded its "investment grade" rating on JANA's long/short funds to "recommended" due to the group's well-resourced and highly experienced research team led by long-time JANA executive John Coombe and new head of Australian equities Aidan ...

GMO small caps downgraded by Morningstar

... noted Morningstar in a report released yesterday. The ratings group has moved their stance from "recommended" to "investment grade". But GMO's asset allocation co-head Jack Gray said they have already appointed current portfolio manager Olivia Engel ...

Sub-prime dominoes falling

The sub-prime contagion's knock-on effect has so far collided with leveraged loans, investment grade bonds, high yield currencies and global equities. Now local councils are feeling the heat. While consensus has been that the sub-prime fallout would ...

From rooster to feather duster

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 30 JUL 2007
... months' credit repricing process. Negativity has swept like a virus from the sub-prime sector to leveraged loans, investment grade bonds, equities and high yield currencies. For the last year the US housing downturn seemed largely confined and companies ...

Basis Capital suspends yield fund

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2007
... wiping out all gains for the previous 12 months. In a letter to investors last week Basis said the market for non-investment grade debt securities and their derivatives had been unsettled by a series of downgrades issued by Moody's and the placement ...