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CalPERS awards Citi $28bn in securities lending assets

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2012
A securities lending auction of US$43 billion in US equities for the California Public Employees' Retirement System has awarded Citi exclusive borrowing access to US$28 billion of the assets. The auction was conducted in the by eSecLending, a global ...

Bond ETFs buffering equity market volatility

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2012
... characteristics of Bond ETFs are a key to their popularity because bonds generally have a low or negative correlation to equities. "The fact that you can use bonds to buffer your equity market volatility has been a real winning factor," said Skelly. ...

Super sector turning to dedicated long-term lenders

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2012
... funds because they can handle long term investments, said Holm. "The downside of private debt is that it's illiquid. Equities are liquid, government bonds are liquid, but private debt illiquid. "What we would say though, is that the price of liquidity ...

Not that rainy day feeling again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2012
... days would continue. Yes Virginia, we got volatility all right but the optimism didn't last. Wall Street and European equities gave back the big gains they made only yesterday - and then some - as fresh polls in Greece show the anti-bailout party has ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2012
... 2012 and building approvals for April, while the Reserve Bank of Australia ((RBA) releases financial aggregates data. In equities news, David Jones posts third quarter sales results.. In Australia, the market on Wednesday closed lower in the wake of ...

Direct super platform targets SMSF exodus

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2012
... on the platform, which is wholly determined by the super fund. In addition to the current product suite of Australian equities, term deposits and access to managed funds, there is also capability to add on global equities and a pension model, at the ...

Telstra Super brings more funds in-house

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2012
... the administration expenses traditionally associated with multiple managers," said John Eliopoulos, head of Australian equities, Telstra Super. He also said that the super fund's relationship with Charles River, which began in 2008, allows Telstra Super ...

Barings launches Asia dynamic asset allocation fund

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2012
... fund will aim to achieve Asian equity-like returns over the long-term but with lower volatility than is normal for Asian equities. Barings said they would achieve this by actively managing the fund's exposure to growth and defensive assets. It will be ...

Bad news? What bad news?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2012
... handed down on 12 May. Now it's all good -- so good that the MSCI Asia apex index jumped by 1.8% on the news. Australian equities were not far behind with the All Ordinaries index jumping by 1.2% on top of the 1.0% gain it posted the day before. It was ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAY 2012
... governor Glenn Stevens is to address the Australian Payments Clearing Association's 20th Anniversary Symposium in Sydney In equities news, National Australia Bank is due to release its quarterly online retail sales index, Woodside Petroleum holds an ...