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S&P Indices expands fixed income

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2012
... S&P/ASX fixed income series and introduced intraday pricing to the Australian market. The government inflation-linked bond index carries capital inflation linked bonds with principal adjusted by trailing Australian CPI each quarter. "Inflation linked ...

Vanguard launches bond ETF

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2012
... and institutions, the new exchange traded fund (ETF) is a share class of the existing Vanguard Australian Government Bond Index Fund, now with more than $300 million in assets. "Our objective in launching this fund is to enable investors to construct ...

Antares launches inflation-linked fund

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 8 NOV 2011
... have shown," said Pelosi. The fund is benchmarked against the short duration benchmark of the UBS 0-10 year Government Bond Index which has duration of six years, which Antares said recognises that the greater risk to the fund is interest rate risk ...

S&P/ASX create fixed income indices suite

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 13 OCT 2011
... Australian Fixed Interest Index which measures the Australian bond market and the sub-sector indices, the S&P/ASX Government Bond Index, S&P/ASX Commonwealth Government Bond Index, S&P/ASX State Government Bond Index, S&P/ASX Corporate Bond Index, S&P/ASX ...

Goldman Sachs downgraded but fixed interest pays

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2011
... and Vanguard and the benchmark agnostic Vianova, S&P said that all managers provided returns above the UBS Composite Bond Index benchmark in 2010, net of fees. "Investors are paying for active returns and for 2010 have been receiving them," said David ...

Ipac boosts insurance-related investments

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 AUG 2010
... a lower 9.4 per cent (based on the MSCI World index) and world bonds, up 5.4 per cent (based on the Citigroup World bond index). The fund's correlation to world stocks and world bonds are at a low 0.06 and 0.02 respectively based on the fund's performance ...

Alaska SWF beats target return by 2pc

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 3 AUG 2010
... Permanent Fund's US fixed income portfolio returned 11.5 per cent for the financial year as the Barclay's Aggregate Bond Index posted 9.5 per cent. "Last year our in-house team made a significant rebalance to high quality non-government bonds when the ...

SSgA cuts securities lending on fixed income funds

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUL 2010
... statement, the portfolios affected include the SSgA World Broad Investment Grade Index Fund; SSgA World Government Bond Index Fund; SSgA EMU Government Bond Index Fund; SSgA UK Government Bond Index Fund and SSgA US Corporate Bond Index Fund. Also on ...

Vanguard to release 19 more ETFs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 28 JUN 2010
... Russell 1000, Russell 2000 and Russell 3000 indices. Meanwhile, the firm is bringing to market with three municipal bond index funds that will track the S&P National AMT-Free Municipal Bond Index series. The firm has registered the 19 new funds and ETFs ...

Africa's PIC appoints Charles River

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2009
... modeling money market portfolios against local indices -including the Bond Exchange Association of South Africa All Bond Index (ALBI) and short-term fixed interest benchmarks (STeFI)." Public Investment Corporation Limited (PIC) manages assets valued ...