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Coalition to boost retail access to corporate bonds

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2019
... wholesale market, via depository interests. Retail investors are currently able to invest in Commonwealth Government Securities via depository interests." The Financial System Inquiry recommended further simplifying disclosure requirements and the Government ...

Government debt on its way to $606bn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
... hold the line at 25%. Paying for this long road to recovery is the $105 billion increase in Commonwealth government securities on issue. In 2021 these will be more than twice what they were when the Abbott government was elected in 2013, which means ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 18 JUL 2016
... interest in CGSs from overseas buyers At end March this year the AOFM reported that 60.4% of these Commonwealth Government Securities (CGS) were held by overseas investors. However, in a warning that global appetite for Australian CGS is waning, this ...

Super funds need to compete globally

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
... particularly against the official reserve managers." She added that in 2007 there was $58 billion of Commonwealth government securities on issue which was less than 5% of GDP. Now it's at $404 billion which is about 25% of GDP. On the property side McLaughlin ...

Exchange-traded gov bonds expand investment options

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2012
... exchange-traded government bonds moved a step closer yesterday following the Senate's passing of the Commonwealth Government Securities Legislation Amendment (Retail Trading) Bill. Subject to regulatory clearance, trading is expected to commence in the ...

Tyndall shifts gears on FI

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2011
... Tyndall is positioning its portfolio with a slightly short-term duration, currently overweight in Commonwealth Government securities. It is also selling down semi-government securities, which it sees as having higher risk, and monitoring credit, which ...

Future Fund won't be a market burden: Minchin

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2005
... - for example, there will be a policy question as to whether it should be able to invest in Commonwealth Government Securities. But Senator Minchin said the view by some that the government should not be setting an investment mandate at all - and that ...

RBC Capital launches $250 million Kangaroo transaction

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 3 SEP 2004
... Kangaroo market, is being marketed to investors at 28 to 30 basis points over the ACGB (Australian Commonwealth Government Securities) 15 August, 2008 rate of 8.75%, which equates to minus 12-to-14 basis points to the three-month Australian dollar bank ...

Henry predicts solid growth in 2004, explains CGS commitment

... Henry was asked what triggered the Federal Government's change of heart for maintaining the Commonwealth Government Securities (CGS) market, revealed in last week's Budget. Dr Henry said it was the submissions the Government received that convinced the ...

Economists welcome Government "backflip" on CGS

... Peter Costello was adamant that all government debt should be retired and along with it the Commonwealth Government Securities (CGS) market, which subsequently would be no longer required." Pereira also said that over the last five years the value of ...
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