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CBA plans retail bond offering

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 9 NOV 2010
... investors have been able to participate in sizes way beyond the capability of the average investor. Stephen Nash of FIIG Securities told Financial Standard that while recent retail bond offerings from Tabcorp and Primary Healthcare were well received ...

Antares wins ipac mandate

MEDIA RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 8 NOV 2010
... covering a range of fixed interest instruments across the risk spectrum, including sovereign debt, corporate bonds, hybrid securities, private debt, short term securities and derivatives. The team comprises seven investment professionals with an average ...

Amigos para siempre

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 NOV 2010
... address that issue. It does create a problem." Only last month, Brazil's government raised the tax on fixed income securities investment from 2 per cent to six percent, and also lifted taxes on guarantees for futures and other derivatives operations ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 NOV 2010
... 24, the December share price index futures contract was up 24 points at 4,751, with 18,874 contracts traded. Austock Securities senior client adviser Michael Heffernan said the local market had performed solidly in morning trade. "It is a nice workman ...

QE2 is Gold(ilocks)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 NOV 2010
... per month over eight months. This is in addition to the US$35 billion monthly purchases of maturing mortgaged-back securities "To promote a stronger pace of economic recovery and to help ensure that inflation, over time, is at levels consistent with ...

ETFs distort stock fundamentals

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 NOV 2010
... passively managed funds buy into and sell out of broad based indices, which leads to erratic moves for the underlying securities, irrespective of fundamentals." In an appeal for hedge fund managers, Hennessee said this is proving very disruptive. However ...

Ipac awards $1bn in fixed interest mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 2 NOV 2010
... major strategic change that we've put in place is to formally separate the management of government bonds from other securities, in particular corporate securities and other returns seeking strategies. "This gives us more control over the levers to make ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 NOV 2010
... ASX24, the December share price index futures contract was up 53 points at 4700, with 14,350 contracts traded. Austock Securities senior client adviser and strategist Michael Heffernan said strong results from three of the four big banks last week had ...

More defensive products hit marketplace

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 1 NOV 2010
... high grade corporate bonds," the advisory firm said. The fund has a mandate to invest in a broad range of fixed income securities and will target a 3 to 6 year maturity range. As securities in the portfolio mature, capital will be returned to investors ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 1 NOV 2010
... Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) issues House Price Indexes in the Eight Capital Cities for September, and TD Securities and the Melbourne Institute issue their inflation gauge for October. In equities news, the markets enters the last week of bank ...