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Unconstrained fixed income funds gaining institutional support

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
As central banks grapple with quantitative easing and markets look towards a period of instability, institutional investors are rethinking traditional fixed income approaches. Henderson Global Investors head of fixed income Phil Apel told Financial ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
... Tinto was up 67 cents at $61.42, and Fortescue Metals had firmed two cents to $3.68. Among the major banks, the Commonwealth bank lifted 38 cents to $76.80, ANZ improved 10 cents to $31.48, Westpac edged up three cents to $32.50, and National Australia ...

Ratings downgrade to trigger hybrid sell-off

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
An impending Standard & Poor's downgrade of bank hybrids will drive the value of these investments, which have already seen recent falls, even lower, according to fixed income specialists FIIG Securities. The ratings agency said it will downgrade the ...

Hot property on notice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
Cool it or we'll hose you down! That's the overriding message to the property market of the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) September Financial Stability Review. While the Australian central bank also warned against rising property prices in March ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
... Locally, in economic news on Thursday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases job vacancies data for August, while Reserve Bank of Australia governor Glenn Stevens is slated to speak at the Melbourne Economic Forum at Melbourne University. The ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014
... which has put pressure on the materials sector." She said adding pressure to financial stocks was the release of the Reserve Bank of Australia's Financial Stability Review on Wednesday morning which expressed concern about soaring house prices. Commonwealth ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014
... December share price index futures contract was down 33 points at 5,373. Locally, in economic news on Wednesday, the Reserve Bank of Australia releases its Financial Stability Review. The Housing Industry Association (HIA)-Cordell Construction Outlook ...

The ECB can't make the horse drink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014
Just a few percentage points are all it took for the Australian equity market to get into what the financial presses call the "Beijing bounce". Two percentage points above the previous month and five percentage points more than consensus expectations ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
... Billiton lost 25 cents to $34.61, and Fortescue Metals lifted seven cents to $3.65. Among the big four banks, the Commonwealth Bank was up 37 cents at $76.82, ANZ rose 17 cents to $31.38, Westpac edged up one cent to $32.41, and National Australia Bank ...

Flatline

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
Fifteen point zero nine points or just a little over 0.28%. This is all the All Ordinaries index need to slip by today to take it back to square one - where it was at the start of 2014. Given the lead from offshore markets overnight - the S&P 500 dropped ...