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--John Cerra, managing director at TIAA-CREF, on topical issues of concern to fixed-income investors, such as the U.S. presidential election and fears of terrorism.

Robert Rubin, Lawrence Summers, Martin Feldstein and R. Glenn Hubbard are being mentioned as possible successors to Alan Greenspan.

The Texas Permanent School Fund will put new cash to work in energy-related corporates and Treasuries, said Carlos Veintemillas, deputy chief investment officer at the $4.5 billion fixed-income fund.

The Treasury is expected to issue $75 billion of Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS) for the upcoming fiscal year, which would be a significant increase versus fiscal-year 2004 issuance of $51 billion.

Glasgow-based Britannic Asset Management is considering shifting money from U.K. into Japanese government bonds.

Some Wall Street economists are saying strong third-quarter gross domestic product growth could, counter intuitively, slow the pace of interest rate hikes and put the Federal Open Market Committee on hold at its December meeting.

Foreign houses in Japan, including Deutsche Bank and JPMorgan, have started marketing constant maturity credit-default swaps referenced to domestic credits with the belief that wider credit spreads could spark interest in the coming months.

BNP Paribas in London is marketing an innovative interest rate-linked investment product for clients who believe rates will rise.

The Australian derivatives market grew by over 20% last year, according to an industry survey, but the figure hid huge variations between instruments.

Banque AIG has recruited Atsushi Kobayashi, foreign exchange marketer at Deutsche Bank in Tokyo, for a similar role.

Implied volatility on the U.S. dollar and yen currency pair jumped last week after the dollar fell through options barriers.