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The light, the light

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2012
Reverend Cleophus James: Do you see the light? Elwood: What light? Reverend Cleophus James: Have you seen the light? Jake: Yes! Yes! Yes!... I have seen the light! - The Blues Brothers Yes, yes, yes, Virginia, gauging from the rally in equity and commodity ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2012
The Australian market looks set to open higher. At 0001 AEDT on Monday, the March share price index futures contract was up 56 points at 4,278. In economic news on Monday, the TD Securities-Melbourne Institute inflation gauge for January is released ...

Surging institutional interest in frontier markets

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012
... director and co-head of applied research for Barra. "The investors who decided to go early into the emerging markets were big pension plans, or sovereign wealth funds; investors with a very long horizon," said Nielsen, who believes the markets can be ...

Call for new generation annuities

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012
... come with the flexibility in payments and access to capital but then turn into a guaranteed product said Howe. "These are big in the US and while some have been launched here, due to the restrictions in legislation they have not taken off as they should. ...

Waiting for jobs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012
... you'll find that the US Federal Reserve in on the case. Just last night, in his testimony before the House of Representatives, Big Ben declared that, "Even as fiscal policymakers address the urgent issue of fiscal sustainability, they should take care ...

Benchmarked inflation protection doesn't stack up

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2012
Managing inflation spikes through inflation-lined bonds (ILB) is fundamentally flawed, according to one institutional investment manager. "The traditional approach to managing inflation has been to buy an inflation benchmark, which is typically eight ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2012
... a reasonable opportunity to buy in." Financial stocks were weaker after news that ratings agency Fitch has put Australia's big four banks on a credit downgrade watch because of their reliance on shaky global debt markets. Investors are also cautious ...

Property-reliant SMSFs face potential risks

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 31 JAN 2012
... superannuation director Andrew Yee. "It does get more risky if you're just buying a property in your funds and then having one big lump asset in the sum." The issue is where the super balance is geared into property and the capital used to launch the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 JAN 2012
... of 2011 but lower than the three per cent that economists were looking for. Trading has been calm in the past four weeks, a big change from the violent moves up and down that marked much of 2011. Friday was the 17th day in a row of moves of less than ...

Covered bonds losing their shine: S&P

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 27 JAN 2012
Domestically, the newly issued covered bonds of the Big 4 are proving popular with investors, despite Standard & Poor's latest assessment that the sector is "losing some of its lustre." The rating agency released its outlook for 2012 predicting a "bumpy ...