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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2009
... The Australian Office of Financial Management conducts a tender for $700 million March 2019 bonds, and online employment agency SEEK releases its Employment Index for April. In company news, Telstra Corporation is understood to be nearing an announcement ...

Instinet makes a splash Down Under

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2009
... high-frequency traders. But what could attract prospective Australian clients is the company's business model. It is a pure agency broker, which means it doesn't face the same potential conflicts of interest and risks that brokers with proprietary trading ...

Passive managers win insto favour

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2009
... increasingly looking at and capitalising on opportunities arising from the US Treasury Loan Guarantee Program Debt and agency debt. "[TLGP debt] is issued by financial institutions but are guaranteed in terms of credit worthiness by the US Government," ...

More than ratings: S&P

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2009
... Standard & Poor's is adding more staff and developing extra research services to boost the global firepower of the ratings agency Down Under. Leanne Milton, Standard & Poor's head of research, said the firm's aim is to make their ratings and research ...

Aviva offers insurance relief

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2009
... cumulative maximum of 12 months in the case where the client is jobless and registers with Centrelink or a recognised employment agency. "This allows our clients to focus on the pressing matters associated with such periods of uncertainty while still ...

The light, the light

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2009
... forward as the trend in house sales continues. This too is backed up by the 1.7 per cent rise in the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) housing price index in January against expectations of a 0.9 per cent fall. The report showed that prices increased ...

Fresh mint

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2009
... US$300 billion of long-term Treasuries over the next six months. It would also purchase an additional US$750 billion of agency mortgage-backed securities and US$100 billion worth of debt of government sponsored enterprises (GSE) over the same period. ...

Residential property wins

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2009
... also investors seeking new opportunities," he said. In June last year, Financial Standard reported that Government-backed agency, the Defence Housing Australia (DHA), manages a $7 billion residential property portfolio. Around 20 per cent of the portfolio ...

Treasuries still strong: ML

RUTH LIEW AND MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 19 FEB 2009
... that in addition to Treasuries, the firm is also recommending other fixed income alternatives such as municipal bonds, agency debt and Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. backed bonds.

Green funds to benefit from new govt policies

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2008