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Stocks and bonds agree on recovery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2009
... Yields are rising because the US government must offer incentives to compete for foreign money to fund its ballooning deficit. These are all equally valid arguments. But it could also be that yields are rising because the bond market - like its equity ...

Fed's unfunded liabilities balloon to $80bn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2009
... accumulating assets faster than anticipated, currently only holds $58 billion for a shortfall of 28 per cent. The federal budget deficit expected to remain in deficit for the most of the coming decade makes it unlikely that the government will be able ...

Ten years is too short: CBI

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
The UK's pension regulator should investigate the funding plans of companies where deficit repayments will take more than 15 years, rather than the current ten, said a key industry body. According to an "eight point action plan" by UK business industry ...

APRA to monitor investment options

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2009
APRA is continuing plans to ramp up its data collections, in particular to collect performance data on individual investment options. To refine its approaches the regulator has issued another discussion paper on how it should be done, how it should ...

No two ways about it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2009
... Standard & Poor's warned that it might downgrade the United Kingdom's AAA credit rating because of its widening budget deficit and ballooning national debt. The fear is that the United States could meet with the same fate. Duh! I don't know about you ...

Pension deficits worsen for FTSE 100

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
The total deficit of FTSE 100 pension schemes in March has widened to $100 billion, a new research found. The total deficit of FTSE 100 pension schemes in March ballooned to $100 billion - a deterioration of $171 billon from 12 months ago, according ...

Goldilocks Budget 2009

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
... good enough. It balances the need for stimulus -- to cushion the economy against further deterioration - and keeping the deficit to a manageable level so as not to affect Australia's credit rating. And once the green shoots of recovery in the global ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
... efforts to raise capital by banks and other firms. The markets also digested better-than-expected data on the US trade deficit and reassuring comments from Federal Reserve chairman, Ben Bernanke, about the health of the banking system. The Dow Jones ...

What-if scenarios bring Budget blues

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2009
New restrictions to existing superannuation and tax concessions could help the Government slash the predicted budget deficit in the next few years but this could come at a higher cost to superannuants and taxpayers in the long term, industry experts ...

US pension deficit shrinks

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2009
... improved by around $60 billion in April and roughly $200 billion in March this year, bringing the estimated aggregate deficit of pension plans sponsored by those firms to over $215 billion at the end of April. Adrian Hartshorn, member of Mercer's Financial ...