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Trillion dollar kitchen sink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2010
... duck for cover -- the euro rallied against the dollar, equity markets worldwide rocketed and the risk premium on government bonds plunged. Who's sorry now? As I keep on insisting on this space for many, many days since the Greek crisis took a turn for ...

Greenspan put

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2010
... months since he was at the helm of the most powerful central bank in the world. Greenie observed that yields on US government bonds have been rising in recent days which he attributes to investors' trepidation over "this huge overhang of federal debt ...

PIMCO Australia draws record $30bn FUM

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2010
... worth of retail and insto mandates came from investors backing active bond managers, particularly at a time when government bonds disrupted the historical risk/return profile of bonds and equities, giving rise to PIMCO head Bill Gross' oft-quoted phrase ...

AustralianSuper revamps retirement investment path

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2010
... automatically reducing a members exposure to riskier assets such as shares to more conservative assets including government bonds as they age, for example: BT Super for Life. Also, the review resulted in the fund retaining the balanced option as its ...

MLC adds eight debt managers

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2010
... has refined the debt sectors further by dividing the existing sectors into a number of specialised ones. Global government bonds now forms part of the specialist sector. Previously, it was part of the broader global bond sector. The firm has also classified ...

Bonds need a double dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2010
... paper and ink, America will have the money. Someone, somewhere, somehow would continue to purchase and hold US government bonds in their portfolio. So is it really this fear of the US' rising national debt that's spooking the bond market or the realisation ...

Posh playground turns sandpit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2009
... Saudi Arabia climbed 18 to 108, while Bahrain rose 30.5 to 225, CMA prices show. Debt swaps linked to Abu Dhabi government bonds increased 18.5 to 155, Vietnam rose 39 to 252, Indonesia climbed 27 to 229 and Russia added 13 to 205." Wall Street is closed ...

Christian Super invests $50m in fixed income

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2009
... $50m mandate. The fund invest in a blend of government and credit Australian fixed interest securities, global government bonds and global credit securities, which are all reviewed using environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors. Peter Murphy ...

Rising risks in liquidity

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2009
... that one of the more sobering lesson of the GFC was the group's high allocation to unlisted assets and lack of government bonds in the portfolio. Today, the fund has a 5 per cent allocation in government bonds and a higher 8 per cent in cash, up from ...

Optimism may not be enough

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2009
... profits on equities and commodities into paper money, cover their US dollar shorts and sprinkle some back into US government bonds. Just another dull day on Wall Street. So while we wait for adrenalin to start flowing again, let's take a look at what's ...