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Treasuries - safe but not so rewarding

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2013
This was to be the year of the Great Rotation. The period when the bond market waves the white flag and give up the fight for investor dollars to the market for equities. That's until Cyprus. It has to come up with a,-5.8 billion (by taxing bank deposits ...

Still the best game in town

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2013
Wall Street continues to treat us to the spectacle that is the running of the bulls. The Dow is now a full 2.0% away from its 2007 record and the S&P 500 is less than 10 points away from reclaiming its own. To be sure, there was some not so good news ...

Hedge fund inflows set to double

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2013
Record low bond yields and the return of global confidence should see inflows into alternative equity strategies more than double in 2013, according to PIMCO executive vice president Ryan Korinke. The hedge fund expert, who is over from the US to meet ...

Green, green grass of home

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2013
... offer a 0.72% premium to 10-year bonds while those for the US gives just a 0.23% premium over an even artificially low bond yield of 2.13%. What happens when the Fed stops buying? It may well be that the Fed is blowing another bubble into the US stock ...

GSAM offers EM debt to retail

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2013
Goldman Sachs Asset Management announced today the launch of the Growth and Emerging Markets Debt Local Fund. The new product seeks to achieve income and capital growth in the long term by investing in bonds issued by emerging market countries, in their ...

Temper, temper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2013
Can you feel it, can you feel it... can you feel it? Darn right, Virginia! Everywhere you look there seems to be that general sense of optimism that's permeating through every nook and cranny of the financial market world. Seems our work here is done. ...

Retail investors need new defensive investments

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2013
Australian retail investors should consider managed credit funds, as term deposit rates are set to drop, said head of credit markets at AMP Capital Jeff Brunton. A global low interest rate environment will eventually force Australian banks to pay out ...

Super fund return expectations unrealistic

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2013
Superannuation funds expecting to achieve 3-4% above inflation on their typical balanced options are likely to be disappointed, according to Credit Suisse Private Banking's David McDonald. The head of strategy and research for Australia told journalists ...

$1tr flows into US bond funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2013
Despite experts warning of a bond bubble, US mutual fund investors poured US$304 billion into bond funds last year. According to figures from the US Investment Company Institute, the bond fund inflows trounced the $153 billion that was withdrawn from ...

"Others" are still fearful

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2013
Phew! What a relief it is, don't you think? A few more weeks (ok, ok, maybe months) of continued equity market gains and I would have yelled, "irrational exuberance!" Sure, sure, I've been trumpeting the improvements in the major and lesser economies ...