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Nice one

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 JAN 2012
... Australian equity market's dividend yield of 4.72% offers a premium over the 3.8% currently available on 10-year Australian bonds. Nice one, don't you think? ==================================== The Sydney breakfast session of this year's Financial Standard ...

Omega wins Ibbotson bonds mandate

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2011
... strategy, replacing Vanguard as underlying investment manager. Omega will apply a new strategy to the Ibbotson Australian Bonds Trust which previously worked on a passively-managed government bond-only vehicle. George Vassos, managing director, Omega ...

PAS taps direct property, shifts bonds

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2010
... Super has poured $80 million into two direct property mandates and re-allocated $75 million from global bonds to Australian bonds. Paul Kessell, the fund's chief investment officer, said he was not able to name the managers which won the mandates but ...

Global instos see Aus deficit a "non-issue"

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 8 OCT 2010
... said. "And if there was a double dip scenario, which we don't have as our base case, we are in a position where Australian bonds have room to rally, where as offshore they are running out of space," he said. Kirkham also noted that local corporates presented ...

Hung

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 AUG 2010
... and debt and deficit one of the lowest in the western world - what sovereign risk? True, the yield on 10-year Australian bonds increased from 4.92 per cent just before Saturday's elections to 4.98 per cent this morning. I don't think a 0.06 percentage ...

BT names head of income & fixed interest

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2010
... extensive experience in trading US and Japanese markets and a good knowledge of the Australian market after managing Australian bonds, derivatives and foreign exchange for more than 15 years. Gor's appointment follows Emilio Gonzalez, chief executive ...

Fund managers pick what's hot in 2010

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2009
... next year. The survey also found many fund managers are bullish on cash type investments as sentiment towards Australian bonds declines. This reaction follows expectations of rising interest rates. "Cash, while not quite king, certainly improved its ...

Bond index returns beat active managers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2009
Financial planners should rethink how they invest in Australian bonds after research found active managers underperformed the benchmark more than 94 per cent of the time over three and five years. The Vanguard study, which drew research from Standard ...

Australian RMBS gains appeal

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2009
... pools are very different form Australian mortgage pools, and if you look at the details of the bonds themselves, Australian bonds have much more security structures around them than say, the US," he said. Selby said Australian mortgages remain "very ...

Intech signs deal with Suncorp

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2009
... Australian shares, international shares, cash, alternative investments, global inflation linked securities and Australian bonds. Research and ratings firm, Lonsec, rated Intech Investments' multi-manager funds 'recommended'. John Gethin-Jones, chief ...