Source: Reserve Bank of Australia The above chart shows the premium banks are paying for their 3 year term deposits compared to 3 year Australian Government bonds from 1992 to the end of September 2011. Since hitting its aboslute high around the start of 2010 and peaking again around July 2010, term deposits are paying …
Daily Archive: October 29, 2011
Oct 29
Australian Government Bond Yields…small improvement
The last month has shown a bit of a bounce-back in the sharemarkets but as the above yield curve indicates, so far its more of a dead cat bounce and there’s a long way to go. The yield curve is still negatively sloping to beyond two years indicating the market is expecting a few rate …
Oct 29
Australian Equities Fund Manager Style over time
A couple of weeks ago I did a post showing Fama French 3 Factor analysis on some of the leading Australian Equities fund managers. The analysis covered returns from June 2003 to September 2011 so it obviously covered a mixture of markets…bull bear and sideways. I just completed the same analysis but this time I …