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Australia's finely balanced $376bn budget

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2012
Australia's $376 billion government budget announced last night included a forecast $1.5 billion surplus in 2012-13 that will increase steadily to $7.5 billion over the next four years. This turnaround in Australia's fiscal position is remarkable given ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2012
... (0.77 per cent) to 1,391.57. The Nasdaq was down slightly more, off 35.55 points (1.16 per cent) to 3,024.30. The bond market was slightly down. The 10-year Treasury yield rose by a fraction to 1.92 per cent, while the 30-year was flat at 3.11 per cent. ...

S&P Indices expands fixed income

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2012
... with principal adjusted by trailing Australian CPI each quarter. "Inflation linked bonds are an important part of the bond market and we've been working on that piece. We're comfortable with the data now and as a result we're launching it this week," ...

Governance Australia's best export to Asia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2012
... sophisticated services. Bandid Nijathaworn, former deputy governor of the Bank of Thailand and now chair of the Thai Bond Market Association, wrote in a recent edition of the Lowy Institute's Interpreter newsletter that "Asia can benefit much more from ...

YBR launches savings fund

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012
Yellow Brick Road Holdings has launched its first high-performance savings solution in a bid to attract mum and dad investors to low-risk cash and bond markets. The YBR Smarter Money Fund invests in high-quality, investment grade cash assets and variable-rate ...

Indonesian inflation falls to 4.25pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2012
... [to] be overwhelmingly reliant on foreign investors and Bank Indonesia," they said. Increasing activity in the Asian bond market, combined with some dampening in the outlook for selected resources, is seeing demand come off for AUD, noting that most ...

Altius makes senior advisory appointments

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2012
Altius Asset Management has appointed three key industry figures to its investment advisory committee. Don Stammer, Tony Fitzgerald and Wayne Jarman will join the three Altius portfolio managers on the committee, which aims to advise Altius on domestic ...

Greece still matters

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2012
Market action over the past few days brought home one realisation - Greece still matters. The sell on 'no swap' buy on 'swap' trades made this all the more apparent. Yes, Virgie, we can close our eyes, ears and noses and pretend that it's been banished ...

Recycled scares

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2012
Roll out, no, no, put that barrel of fun back. Roll out the bad news. Which one? Would you like the one about Greece defaulting or the one that talks about Europe heading for (already in) recession? Or do you prefer a reiteration of the tale of China ...

Global govt bonds downgrade: Towers Watson

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2012
Towers Watson has downgraded intermediate global developed market government and inflation-linked bonds to 'highly unattractive,' saying risk premiums no longer compensate long-term investors for duration risk. On-going money printing by central banks ...