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BlackRock iShares launches two ETFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020
... traded funds on the ASX that invest in Australian corporate bonds. The iShares Yield Plus ETF (IYLD) tracks a customised Bloomberg index that measures the performance of the Australian corporate bond market after excluding issuance from the big four ...

Frontier Advisors adds to leadership

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
... Liquidnet. He previously was director, global partnerships at Thompson Reuters and global head of strategy and product at Bloomberg. Jenkins will be returning to Australia for his new role, after 16 years abroad in London, Hong Kong and New York. Frontier ...

Chief economist update: Powell blamed for fall on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
... stimulus could be needed to support the economy's recovery from the coronavirus-induced contraction."...and from Bloomberg: "Powell Slams Door on Trump's Negative Rates 'Gift'." "It's an unsettled area, I would call it," he said. ...

The next big short

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
... subprime mortgages prior to the GFC. "Like most bubbles, the longer it goes on, the worse the crash will be," Burry told Bloomberg. "This is very much like the bubble in synthetic asset-backed CDOs before the Great Financial Crisis in that price-setting ...

Aussie ETF investors got oil bets wrong before crash

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
... on the direction of WTI futures. In the US, investors poured over US $1 billion into the United States Oil ETF (USO), Bloomberg reported. Oil prices' crash has made OOO the worst-performing ETF for all listed on the ASX. It ended Friday down nearly ...

Tail-risk hedging pays off for super fund

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... tail-risk hedging has been making headlines after a tail-risk hedge fund advised by Nassim Taleb returned 3612% for March. Bloomberg reported that the Universa Investments fund returned 4144% year-to-date at the end of March. Following news of the hedge ...

Stand still, get left behind

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2020
... and industry initiatives," Welsh-Rose said. And as for external ratings from agencies like MSCI, Sustainalytics and Bloomberg these have their place but also their limitations. Aberdeen Standard Investments leverages external research to complement its ...

JP Morgan's coronavirus contingency plan

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2020
... access capabilities so as to ensure the firm can continue to serve its customers in the event of a pandemic. According to Bloomberg, there are 127,137 employees in the firm's consumer banking business in the US. About 10% of these employees will ...

Chief economist update: The C word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2020
... authorities are now fashioning their own "C" word response. "C" for concerted or coordinated action... take your pick. As Bloomberg reports: "Group of Seven finance ministers will hold a teleconference this week to coordinate their response to the coronavirus ...

ETF popularity soars 52%

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2020
... "Such interest might be due to the strong performance from both the Australian and global fixed-interest markets; the Bloomberg AusBond Composite 0+Yr TR and Bloomberg Barclays Global Aggregate TR Hedged AUD indexes returned 7.26% and 7.19%, respectively ...