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Eurozone turmoil sparks 'flight-to-quality'

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012
... is causing a "flight-to-quality", according to Robert Mead, PIMCO's head of portfolio management in Australia. Ratings agency Moody's said it had maintained France's top rating but kept the outlook at 'Negative', noting that while new president Hollande ...

Deja vu of deja vu

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2012

Bumps along the way

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2012
... authorities scrambled for a rescue. Central banks stimulated led by the Fed's reinvestment of "principal payments from agency debt and agency mortgage-backed securities in longer-term Treasury securities." So much so that scaredy cats who sold the S&P ...

Hunter Hall chief executive exits

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2012
... following 11 years with the firm. Six equities funds were put on hold yesterday following the announcement, with ratings agency Standard & Poors concerned that, coming on the back of deputy chief investment officer Jack Lowenstein's resignation in November ...

US retains World Bank leadership

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2012
... budget. Treasurer Wayne Swan welcomed the news and said the appointment of Kim is an excellent addition for the development agency. "While the other candidates were strong contenders, Jim Kim will make an excellent addition to the World Bank," said Minister ...

Gensler to depart T. Rowe Price

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012
... manager for the T. Rowe Price Global Technology Fund will take over Gensler's responsibilities in other regions. Ratings agency Van Eyk, which announced the retirement yesterday said there would be no change to the high ratings of the fund. "We have ...

No QE, not bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2012
... in September. The Committee is maintaining its existing policies of reinvesting principal payments from its holdings of agency debt and agency mortgage-backed securities in agency mortgage-backed securities and of rolling over maturing Treasury securities ...

Govt bonds reach $237bn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 2 APR 2012
... notes 6% each with 1% in other securities types, according to the Australian Office of Financial Management, the government agency with responsibility for managing this debt. Three quarters of this debt is in the hands of overseas investors, said Dr ...

Schroders loses two analysts

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2012
... Poor's said its ratings on Schroders' Australian equity fund are unchanged following the resignations of two analysts. The agency said Kent Jensen is returning home to Norway while Alex Mears has decided to take a career break. "We are comfortable that ...

EU action has done little but buy time: Aberdeen

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2012
... triple-A rated is due to control over monetary policy and currency, said Griffiths, referring to a conversation with a ratings agency on the debt levels currently carried by the UK. Concern among sovereign bond investors should however be the medium ...