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Emerging markets to bounce back after correction

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAY 2006
... demand fell to the 19th percentile. The report also flagged a pick up in yield in US Treasuries and Eurozone government bonds with cumulative demand growing over the last month, according to the Sovereign Bond Flow Indicator. But AMP's head of investment ...

Too soon for Future Fund asset allocation calls: Murray

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAY 2006
... Government agenda. Murray also hinted that the Future Fund capacity will likely lead to the issuance of more Government bonds. "The Government has undertaken to keep bonds at a certain level. The Future Fund could dry up those funds." And while the Government ...

Another mandate win for Perennial

... Perennial Australian Core Plus strategy. The Australian Core Plus strategy includes a portfolio of Australian government bonds, corporate and asset backed securities. To enhance investment returns the strategy includes an opportunistic allocation to ...

United Funds management's first birthday delivers returns

... high yield and current investment environment including cash rates remaining unattractive, declining issuance of government bonds and the appetite for diversification. A high yield fund typically invests in high yielding assets such as corporate bonds ...

Deceptive bonds

... consumers do not realise the benchmark index for bonds is not the traditional and safe mix of commonwealth and semi-government bonds it was in the past. Once the bond component of the portfolio is complete investors then focus all their attention on ...

AOFM establishes lending facility for government bonds

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 1 OCT 2004
The Australian Office of Financial Management (AOFM) on Thursday said it had established a lending facility for Australian Government treasury bonds. The facility allows bond market participants to borrow bonds when they are not readily available from ...

Qantas flies its fixed interest with Perennial

... managing director, Anthony Patterson said. The Australian Core Plus strategy will primarily invest in Australian government bonds, high quality corporate and asset backed securities. To further enhance returns a percentage of the portfolio may be opportunistically ...

UK launches probe into Citigroup bond trading

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 19 AUG 2004
... government debt in the space of minutes on August 2. A source familiar with the trades said they involved 100 European government bonds, with a variety of maturities, in 11 markets off 13 different platforms, 11 of which were on the electronic trading ...

NZ Super fund appoints Vanguard as bonds manager

... government bond portfolio for the New Zealand Superannuation Fund. Vanguard's mandate is to manage a portfolio of government bonds which closely replicates the Citigroup World Government Bond Index. The fund will only invest in government-guaranteed ...

Dollar looks set for more solid gains

... the risk that is inherent in less well-developed markets that makes it attractive. With cash at 5%, three-year government bonds at 5.85% and 10-year government yields near 5.95%, the Australian yield curve rivals or even exceeds the interest rate structure ...