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Negative rates can generate positive returns

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2016
... Laura Ryan showed that in some circumstances negative yields can be good for bonds. She demonstrated ways to ride the yield curve to generate positive returns in negative yield environments. "For bonds with lower coupons and low yields, the duration ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2016
... hours worked, the Westpac/MI Consumer Sentiment Expectations index and the Westpac /MI Unemployment Index. Also, "The yield curve spread exerted slightly more downward pressure over the period". "Momentum in the domestic economy, particularly around ...

Returning Fed hike expectations could be flattened by yield curve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2016
... at the start of this year. Rising yields at the short end and falling at the longer end translates into a flatter yield curve and history shows that a flat yield curve presages an economic slowdown (an inverted one is followed by a recession). The 10-year/2-year ...

Another 6-9 months under Downunder

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 FEB 2016
... providing an offsetting boost". "The theme of international factors which are represented by the share market; the yield curve; US industrial production and commodities weighing on the Index while being partially offset by an improving labour market ...

The Fed's done it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2015
... http://www.economist.com/news/21684225-economys-reaction-feds-rate-rise-hard-predict-federal The Economist could have saved itself some work if it just looks at the US yield curve. The New York Federal Reserve published a paper in June 1996 titled, "The ...

Bond investors warned not to overlook defence

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2015
... little probability of what the bond expert calls 'jump risk', or a regime change in volatility; and a relatively steep yield curve. Regionally that approach has seen the fund take a relatively negative view on the US, where Husain believes a rate hike ...

Investors blind to arbitrage opportunity in emerging market debt

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2014
... in Australia, where rates are comparatively high, opportunities for bond investors have become more limited as the yield curve has tightened. Expectations of rising rates have compounded the issue. But according to emerging market specialist Marber ...

New Vanguard modelling tool picks global equities to win

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2014
A newly launched simulation and forecasting engine developed by Vanguard has tipped global equities as the most likely asset class to achieve a 6% to 9% annualised return over the next decade. The range is roughly the same level of return targeted by ...

The name is bonds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2014
... oh, they're now down to October 2013 levels - the time when taper was still speculation. Normally, I would check the yield curve - the difference between yields at the long end and those at the short -- to divine what the bond market is saying. But these ...

The good, the good and the dollar-A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2013
... yields started rising above 2.0%. It's all for the best. It's all for normalisation of monetary policy. A steepening yield curve signals economic growth, does it not? But it isn't only Uncle Sam that has an exclusive on good news. There's good news from ...