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Antares launches inflation-linked fund

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 8 NOV 2011
... advanced economies. Tano Pelosi, portfolio manager, Antares Inflation Linked Bond Fund said political pressures on central banks are also impacting on global inflation. "In addition, Australia is anchored to Asia, one of the fastest growth regions in ...

State Street expands Australian global markets team

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 1 NOV 2011
... Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and the Asia Pacific region, where he worked closely with governments, regulators, central banks, central securities depositories and industry participants. Scholfield has relocated to Sydney from State Street's Boston and ...

APRA executive appointed secretary general of Basel

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2011
... task forces. The Secretary General is also a major point of contact between the committee and other global bodies, central banks and supervisory authorities. Before joining APRA in 1998, Byres spent 13 years with the Reserve Bank of Australia, mainly ...

Fidelity to offer fixed income products to Australian market

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 13 OCT 2011
... months. "For many investors who are struggling with the volatility of the equity markets just now, who are looking at central banks with either very low interest rates or who are potentially cutting interest rates, the fixed income universe is something ...

Glimmer of hope

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2011
... been factored in into current pricing and has weeded out all the non-believers. Heck, even European - and Asian - central banks are reportedly stockpiling gold in their coffers when in the late 1990s Europe's central banks were jumping on top of each ...

Psychological asset classes run investors

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2011
... get out before everyone realises this is a hoax'. And it is a hoax. Gold is not used in industry, its not used by central banks in a real way." Swanson said gold is a psychological asset class and as soon as that psychology breaks and there is no income ...

Waiting and hoping

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2011
... Something must be done - and done fast. The financial markets' positive reaction to the concerted action by the central banks of the US, the Eurozone, England, Japan and Switzerland to extend liquidity to European banks suggests that financial markets ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2011
... eurozone states. HONG KONG - Asia-Pacific stock markets extended a global rally after the world's most powerful central banks offered to inject US dollars into lenders squeezed by the eurozone debt crisis. The European Central Bank and its US, Japanese ...

Dangerous currents

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011
... National Bank, is extending liquidity to banks in the Eurozone. Instead of the usual seven-day operations, these central banks will now "conduct three US dollar liquidity-providing operations with a maturity of approximately three months covering the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011
NEW YORK - US stocks got a boost Thursday despite poor domestic economic data after major central banks joined hands to ensure US dollar liquidity to Europe's embattled banks. In positive territory for the fourth day in a row, the Dow Jones Industrial ...