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Australia's finely balanced $376bn budget

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2012
... rates dropping so deeply is also expected to see further falls in the AUD and push up bond prices which should see fixed interest returns staying comfortably in double digit territory thus maintaining pressure on super fund trustees to increase their ...

Super funds continue to recover

RACHEL DAVIS  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2012
... returns are explained by Australian shares losing 6% over the 12 months to end March 2012. In contrast, domestic fixed interest and direct property both earned 10% and international fixed interest earned 11%. The top five Workplace Super funds (by default ...

GESB awards $2.3bn in bond mandates

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2012
... approximately $1.6bn invested in global government bond investment strategies and nearly $1.8bn in diversified fixed interest investment strategies.

EQT wins Austock Life mandate

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2012
... a decline in capital value during that time, is also very appealing," Higgins said. The Imputation Bond's cash, fixed interest and term deposits suite has experienced significant inflows recently, according to the company, making the mandate a timely ...

Australian private wealth firm selects US property

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2012
... some of the best funding rates of any lender in the market. This particular facility is a ten year loan with a fixed interest at 4.4%," said Linden Toll, executive director. "The purchase has been validated by the contract price being considerably under ...

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 ...

AIOFP selects OneVue platform

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAR 2012
... self-managed super funds (SMSFs). "Through the OneVue platform advisers can also manage separately managed accounts, fixed interest securities and term deposits, traditional WRAP accounts, managed funds, listed securities and cash all on the one platform," ...

Super funds should refocus on fixed interest

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2012
Superannuation funds need to readjust their view of fixed interest to see its potential as a pre-retirement asset class and its complexities. Dr Doug McTaggart, chief executive of QIC, said that rather than super funds thinking about fixed interest ...

Altius makes senior advisory appointments

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2012
... benefit significantly from their experience and understanding of the investment environment and trends that affect fixed interest as well as investment markets generally," said Bill Bovingdon, chief investment officer, Altius. Stammer was previously ...

PIMCO lands OnePath advice mandate

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2012
... manager PIMCO said it wants to expand further into the Australian advice market and will manage OnePath's diversified fixed interest funds. PIMCO will offer ANZ-aligned advisers a range of domestic fixed income, global fixed income and high yield credit ...