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Upside surprises to surprise on the upside

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2012
... announced in September," and "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 ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAR 2012
... AEDT, Macquarie Group was six cents higher at $26.31 despite having two credit ratings downgraded by Fitch as part of the agency's review of the world's largest financial institutions. Kids toy supplier Funtastic was untraded at 15 cents after it took ...

Aviva DSMA stays strong after nabInvest acquisition

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 27 FEB 2012
... nabInvest's acquisition of the investment management firm last year. The affirmation follows recent discussion between the rating agency and the National Australia Bank (NAB) subsidiary. "We believe the risk that the service will be discontinued at some ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 FEB 2012
... doubts about the underlying sums and with Greece's economy seen as too weak to meet the targets set. International ratings agency Fitch said it now considered a Greek debt default was "highly likely in the near term" as it cut the country's rock-bottom ...

Australia doesn't need a SWF

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 21 FEB 2012
... century." SWFs can also distort the funds management market itself. The Future Fund is managed by the Future Fund Management Agency. According to Rainmaker research, the agency at end September looked after $90 billion, making it Australia's largest ...

Aus Ethical names new chief investment officer

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 14 FEB 2012
... 'buy side' equities research, portfolio construction, strategic and tactical asset allocation, asset consulting, rating agency process management and quantitative analysis. "I am very pleased to be appointing David to the role. He has a broad base of ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2012
... Herring said. "This could be 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. ...

Covered bonds losing their shine: S&P

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 27 JAN 2012
... 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 year ahead", with the bleak economic backdrop impacting spread volatility ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 JAN 2012
... sale. Frankfurt's DAX 30 jumped by 1.25 per cent to 6,220.01 points as investors cheered news that international ratings agency Standard & Poor's had maintained Germany's hard-won AAA credit rating. Milan was up by 1.4 per cent and Madrid was essentially ...

Instos set sights on Indonesian assets

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 16 JAN 2012
... income. The Indonesian economy grew by 6.5% in the third quarter of last year, and the country was upgraded by ratings agency Fitch to triple B minus status before Christmas. However, Mandiri Investasi said that more needs to be done to properly communicate ...