Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 311 - 320 of 790 results for "Bond Market"

Central banks rule

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 OCT 2013
"When the night has come And the land is dark And the moon is the only light we'll see No I won't be afraid Oh, I won't be afraid Just as long as you stand, stand by me." - Ben E. King How serendipitous is it, 'ey? It's Ben all around. This little Ben ...

FIIG's latest bond issue already oversubscribed

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2013
... 7.95% per annum with a minimum investment of $50,000, was oversubscribed. FIIG is a pioneer of the unrated corporate bond market in Australia, and chief executive Mark Paton said the success of its latest offering shows unrated paper is becoming a regular ...

OMTs - one year on

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2013
It's all about China.A It's not landing hard.A It's stabilising. That's what you'll read in most finance headlines this morning Virginia as the main pusher of positive sentiment in Asian equity markets yesterday and Wall Street overnight. Europe closed ...

Cash Converters to raise $60m through bond issue

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2013
... ($30 million). FIIG chief executive Mark Paton said the number of mid-cap corporates accessing capital through the bond market was turning "from a trickle into a flood". While all corporate bonds distributed by FIIG are unrated, Paton said that this ...

Benchmark bond funds worst choice for Aussie investors

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2013
... Australia's economic and political environment. As global rather than local concerns had largely driven Australia's bond market rally, however, it was possible that they could work in the opposite direction-causing bond valuations to fall-as global volatility ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2013
... Locally, Australian bond futures prices fell after the minutes' release. "It's mostly factored in, but the fact is the bond market sold off last night. "There's still liquidations in global bond markets and that's causing massive stress in everything ...

FIIG targets SMSFs with low-limit corporate bond

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 19 AUG 2013
... which was itself an unusually low limit, with the Australian standard at $500,000. A small and relatively inaccessible bond market in Australia has seen private investors and SMSFs allocating globally anomalous amounts to cash and term deposits. According ...

Cash love affair continues despite falling rates

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2013
... anomaly. While it certainly suggests low levels of confidence, it can also be largely explained by the small Australian bond market, which is particularly difficult to access for SMSFs. Investment Trends found that just 7 % of SMSFs hold bonds in their ...

Balanced funds ill-suited for fixed income blow-up

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUL 2013
Typical balanced superannuation portfolios are ill-equipped to protect investors from the impending end of quantitative easing and the subsequent rise in global bond yields, according to Russell director of client strategies for Asia Pacific Scott Fletcher. ...

Post-Bernanke uncertainty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2013
... rate for all we care. Go ahead Ben, make our day! But this isn't the case. The prospect of Fed taper still has the bond market on defensive. Yields on 10-year US Treasuries rose to 2.57% last night - 4 bps up from a day before and 117 bps from a year ...