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Australia's finely balanced $376bn budget

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2012
... Regardless of the politics of the budget, bond markets have already responded positively by lowering yields on Australian government bonds to their lowest level in more than 40 years, a trend that is expected to add to pressure on the Reserve Bank to ...

YBR launches savings fund

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012
... global shares, taking a large hit during the crisis. "Yet over the last 25 years, safe investments like Australian government bonds have yielded better total returns than global shares with substantially lower risk of loss." YBR said that it was time ...

Indonesian inflation falls to 4.25pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2012
... some dampening in the outlook for selected resources, is seeing demand come off for AUD, noting that most Australian government bonds issued are bought by overseas investors and if the choices these buyers have in regional bond markets keep increasing ...

GMO shuts Aus equities

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2012
... Australian equities mandates for a number of local superannuation plans, including State Super ($790 million) and Australian Government Employees Superannuation Trust ($113 million), according to Rainmaker Research. GMO primarily services an institutional ...

Report questions infra investment

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2012
A study debunking the theory of infrastructure underinvestment in NSW has highlighted the gap between inefficiencies in public sector funding and private sector finance levels. An audit report commissioned by the Premier Barry O'Farrell found NSW infrastructure ...

Vanguard launches bond ETF

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2012
Vanguard will add a fixed interest ETF to its stable with an Australian Government Bond ETF based on the UBS Index. Targeting investors, advisers and institutions, the new exchange traded fund (ETF) is a share class of the existing Vanguard Australian ...

AGEST signs GBST

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2012
... performance management services for six AGEST mandates. The agreement is driven by a change in focus of the Australian Government Employees Superannuation Trust (AGEST) to after-tax performance given it is the most relevant result for members. "Measuring ...

Govt bonds reach $237bn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 2 APR 2012
... executive of QIC Limited, at a recent superannuation industry seminar. MacTaggart said the popularity of Australian government debt is another reason why there is upward pressure on the AUD, explaining that it's not just the resources sector pushing ...

Advisers told to rethink growth asset allocations

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2012
... strategies with broad implications in terms of generating real returns amid low growth. "If they achieve it, the Australian government's contraction of its budget is going to be a very significant reduction in public sector spending. It's probably the ...

Global govt bonds downgrade: Towers Watson

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2012
... to be a stronger and faster cyclical recovery than most intermediate bond markets are currently pricing. Australian government nominal and inflation linked bonds have not been downgraded, maintaining a 'moderately unattractive' rating. "Our base case ...