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Colchester launches new fund

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2019
Colchester Global Investors has launched its new Emerging Markets Bond Fund for financial advisers to diversify within the income-generating allocations of client portfolios. Colchester's head of distribution for Australia, Angela MacPherson, said ...

La Trobe Financial expands executive team

KRISTI CHENG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2019
... originally from New York, having commenced his career with Standard & Poor's, where he worked for 10 years across their municipal bond, financial institutes and structured finance rating department. Following this, he worked with the National Australia ...

Government moves to expand design, distribution laws

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 13 SEP 2019
... basic banking products, products sold in certain situations where the obligations could be avoided, and simple corporate bond depository interests in specific circumstances. According to the explanatory memorandum for the draft regulations, the extension ...

Vanguard launches three new active funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2019
... unit trusts. They opened to investors today. The company also has a third fund on the way, the Vanguard Active Global Credit Bond Fund will be managed by Vanguard's Fixed Income Group and open in the coming weeks. Vanguard's external manager ...

Foresight launches new wholesale fund

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2019
... predictable income and yield margin and diversification benefits through lower correlation with the broader equity, property and bond markets. The green bond asset class had typically been most readily available to institutional investors. Foresight ...

Time to reset member return expectations?

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2019
Research house Rice Warner has openly questioned whether superannuation funds should begin resetting the return expectations of members. With difficult economic headwinds prevailing, Rice Warner is concerned superannuation funds have made a rod for ...

BNY Mellon adds to Melbourne team

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2019
BNY Mellon has made its first client-facing appointment for its Melbourne office in its 50-strong corporate trust business. Jason Mistry is joining the Melbourne office in a business development role. He is the second Melbourne hire in BNY Mellon's ...

Chief economist update: Economy slows to decade low but still tops the pops

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2019
... domestic and international - affecting businesses. G for government. Lower borrowing costs for the government (declining bond yields) and the infrastructure plans already in the pipeline are certain to boost government's contribution to GDP in the ...

Chief economist update: US yield curve pictorial

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2019
... Bank of Cleveland and New York prove to be the best predictor of a looming US recession - the spread between the 10-year US bond yield and the three-month bill rate. Current spread: negative 50bps Max inversion before 2007-2009 US recession: negative ...

Chief economist update: What price Australian budget surplus?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2019
... the "government should increase spending now instead of waiting for a rainy day. Followed up by the rationale that "with bond yields (cost of government borrowing) this low, it's time for fiscal policy to lend a helping hand" because central banks ...