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Moody's downgrade drives demand for Aus bonds

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2013
... economy. Moody's downgraded Britain's credit rating to AA1 from AAA, with Australia now the third largest triple-A bond market after Germany and Canada. The downgrade puts Australia "in a box seat," as the number of economies with triple-A scorecards ...

Instos on verge of piling into Asian bonds

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2013
Australian institutional bond investors are considering increasing their allocations to Asia Pacific, where record levels of bond issuance are broadening opportunities for diversification and relatively high returns. AllianceBernstein director of Asia ...

EU-wide ban on CDS pointless

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2013
Academic research from Imperial College found that Credit Default Swap (CDS) spreads are a poor proxy for sovereign default risk, suggesting that the EU-wide ban on naked CDS positions is unlikely to achieve its aims. Lara Cathcart, senior lecturer ...

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. ...

Banks raise $15bn in wholesale markets

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2013
... year. Thomson Reuters numbers reveal that major Australian banks have already raised $5.4 billion in the domestic bond market and $10.2 billion in global markets. Included among these figures is an Australia and New Zealand Banking Group's $US1.25 billion ...

There's no bubble in bond markets: Tyndall AM

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2013
... Asset Management head of fixed income Roger Bridges has stressed that there is definitely not a bubble forming in the bond market. Current high prices and low yields have raised fears of capital losses within the asset class during 2013 but Bridges insists ...

US credit rating threatened, buy US bonds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2013
... associate with a triple-A rated government". Darn right Mr. Riley! That should be enough to scare the bejeesus off any bond market investor. This is because normally, a credit downgrade signals that a country is less able to repay its debt obligations ...

VicSuper adopts fresh approach to sovereign exposure

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2013
... a long way towards assuaging our medium term concerns about the concentration and default risks in the government bond market."

Act now to capitalise on Asian fixed income migration: Omega

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2012
Asian bond markets offer superior returns at a lower level of risk than their European and US counterparts, according to Omega Global Investors. Falling cash rates in Australia are widely expected to act as the catalyst for a large migration into fixed ...

China primed for encouraging rebound: HSBC

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2012
... problem for Beijing." Hongbin is also anticipating reform acceleration in 2013, with i nterest rate liberalisation, bond market expansion and capital account liberalisation, fiscal and tax reforms, deregulation to revitalise private business within infrastructure ...