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Economy slowing down and speeding up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2008
... reduce inflation over time." A veiled warning that the economy sits on a knife edge however is how the board noted "[bond market] pricing suggested that markets saw a reasonable chance of a tightening towards the end of the year". Reinforcing the dichotomy ...

Telstra Super eyes distressed debt

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 APR 2008
... used by these managers to extract the value they want," he said. Distressed debt is a sub-segment of the high-yield bond market and is defined as securities that yield at least 10 percent above the risk-free rate benchmark. According to NYU Stern School ...

CPI, housing affordability and oil bills

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2008
... rates that should act as an automatic dampener. But if the 2020 Summit idea that the government should set up a cheap bond market program to lower the cost of housing finance in the wholesale market comes to fruition, Winnel's worst nightmare could come ...

Currency replaces fixed income

... churns out over $3.3 trillion a day, more than three times the size of the second most liquid asset class, the US bond market, which trades $900 billion a day. "It's the world's largest liquid asset class yet it's structurally inefficient," said Davey. ...

Flight of the squeamish

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2008
... exodus from debt markets back into equities, and these antics have negatively impacted local bonds. In Australia, the bond market appears to have been punting on the global credit squeeze not only staunching further rate rises, but forcing a rate cut ...

SSgA wins $200m hedge fund replication mandate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2008
... remaining 85 per cent could be attributed to a equity risk premium of market returns that included equities, credit, bond market duration and market volatility. He said State Street Global Advisers had received a strong amount of interest in the Hedge ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2008
... December. RBA assistant governor of financial markets, Dr Guy Debelle, speaks on Recent Developments in the Australian Bond Market' at the Westpac/KangaNews Speed-Meeting Summit. Just Group Ltd and Queensland Gas Co Ltd release their interim results. ...

Local bonds better than the US: PIMCO

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2008
Australia's fixed income market is more attractive than that of the US, according to Bill Gross, Pimco chief investment officer. "Australia has a stronger economy than the US, which says to me Australia is one of the most attractive bond markets as ...

Schroders expands fixed income team

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2008
Schroders Investment Management Australia has appointed Peter Fullerton to head of credit research in its fixed income team. The newly created position follows the appointment of Steven Hur to credit analyst in November last year. In this role Fullerton ...

Marsupials and the money market

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2008
... oustanding issues of Kangaroos bonds has jumped five-fold since 2003 to now exceed $100 billion each month. This lifts the bond market share of these marsupials to 20 per cent compared to being just 2 per cent a decade ago. Foreign demand for our bonds ...