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Franklin Templeton launches new global fixed income fund

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2012
... scenarios for the global economy and, in the case of the US and Japan, their long-term creditworthiness compared with less indebted countries," said Beck. "The underlying momentum of growth in the global economy is strong enough to reassert itself despite ...

Economic indicators defy equities upside: Schroders

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2012
Equities remain an attractive investment despite a dismal global growth forecast, an over-inflated Aussie dollar and unprecedented levels of developed world government debt, according to Schroders' Andrew Fleming. The deputy head of Australian equities ...

Omega bullish on sovereign investing

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
... months returned 10% for a very low amount of risk. Mathew McCrum, joint head of investments at Omega said that lowly indebted nations are currently doing well and that safe government bonds are doing even better. He noted that Australians have been underinvested ...

The pain in Spain does not fall mainly on the plain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2012
... credibility. Yup, Charlie was talking down the latest QE. And that region is Catalonia - Spain's largest region and the most indebted. According to 'Business Insider', Catalonia accounts for "18.7% of Spain's total GDP" with "total debts of 42 billion ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2012
... 52 points at 4,369. Under ECB chief Mario Draghi's revamped program, the central bank will buy bonds issued by heavily indebted euro-zone countries in a scheme named Outright Monetary Transactions (OMT). The OMTs will replace the ECB's previous Securities ...

SmartBeta solution tackles passive MySuper index approach: AXA IM

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 AUG 2012
... evolution of the index dictates the buying and selling of bonds could lead to investors being overweight in the most indebted issuers, said AXA IM. By ensuring diversification, AXA IM said that the "credit worthiness of the portfolio is maintained as ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 AUG 2012
... the annual summit of central bank chiefs stoked speculation of a new European Central Bank program of buying bonds of indebted eurozone states is near. London's FTSE 100 closed down 0.02 per cent to 5775.71 points, while Frankfurt's DAX 30 dropped 0.64 ...

Sitting and waiting and still hoping

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2012
... on yields to a pre-set premium over German bunds. Yippee ki yay! This would put a limit on the borrowing costs highly indebted euro countries have to pay. That was until the Bundesbank put an end to this wishful thinking. "The Bundesbank remains critical ...

VIX says nearly shopping time

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2012
... underlying this is the question of austerity versus growth. We won't be having this discussion if Greece and other highly indebted Euro members aren't choking on austerity. Shall they continue strangling their economies in the name of austerity so that ...

Grexit and the games people play

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2012
... Greece - it's cactus either way - but then it'll start a new guessing game of 'who's next?' as bond yields in other highly indebted countries soar that'll surely cause them to default and be forced out of the eurozone. Then, they'll have what Greece ...