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FIIG brings corporate bond issue to market

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2013
... the wholesale market on behalf of sugar miller Mackay Sugar, the fixed income broker announced this week. The five-year notes will be offered with a coupon of between 7% and 7.5% and dealers will be free to trade the securities on the secondary market ...

Need action on diversity not just a policy: ACSI

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2013
... the proportion of women chairpersons and chief executives of ASX200 companies which were found to only be 4%. The irony, notes the ACSI research, is that even the healthcare sector that has 70% women employees, has the lowest average number of women ...

Can't help falling in love with stocks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2013
... showed the 3-month average insider sales-to-buy ratio rising to a 2-year high of 12 sells to 1 buy. Pavilion Global Markets notes that equities fell by 5.9% on average in the next six months when the ratio is greater than 11. Greater fool? As Elvis 'the ...

$1tr flows into US bond funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2013
... investment news service. Illustrating the reaction investment managers are worrying about, yields on 30 year bonds are now 3.2%, notes Bloomberg figures. The yield curve for Australian bonds is not so steep, however, while 10 year bond yields are now ...

New claimants join class action against CBA

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2013
... to invest (in those CDOs). Anyone who lost money by investing in three specific investments sold by CBA - Pure Portfolio Notes; Oasis Portfolio Notes; and Palladin Portfolio Notes - between January 2006 and December 2007 is eligible to join the class ...

Social media a counter-balance to info overload

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2013
... advisers who are all over social media, they're simply not applying people management skills - they just don't get it," notes Gardner. Social media can help financial advisers systemise the process of client engagement, but Gardner reminded delegates ...

Open wide, come inside

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2013
... government bonds worth up to US$25 billion (from US$20 billion) and up to US$50 billion (from US$45 billion) in Indian corporate notes. This should help increase fund inflows into the country, easing pressure on the current account and give the Reserve ...

Good, better, best

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013
... the US Federal Reserve could decided to reduce - if not altogether stop - its monthly purchases (US$45 billion in Treasury notes and US$40 billion in mortgage bonds) by mid-year this year. Yes, you read right...mid-year 2013. That's how far market sentiment ...

2013 a turning point for world economy: Clime

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2013
... positive news out of the US and Japan, a restoration of growth in China, and a bounce in commodity prices," he said. Abernathy notes that in Europe bond yields have been correcting to more normal levels both in Germany -where investors were paying for ...

SMSF popularity belies fickle performance

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2013
... segments of the superannuation market. However, given that there are so many SMSFs, Rainmaker head of research Alex Dunnin notes that statistically there should be many tens of thousands of SMSFs that underperform and a corresponding amount that outperform. ...