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Vanguard lowers fees

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2019
... its Australian Shares High Yield Index Fund by three basis points - moving it to 0.35%. The Vanguard Australian Government Bond Index Fund will see the largest reduction of five basis points, moving to 0.24% a year. The Vanguard Australian Shares Index ...

Asset manager eyes Australian market

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2019
... strategy, Brookvine said. It is opening the Moneda Latin American Corporate Debt Fund to Australian investors. The high yield bond fund invests in US dollar-denominated corporate credit of Latin American companies and has returned 12.5% p.a. since February ...

Chief economist update: BOE lets peers do the heavy lifting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 JUN 2019
... admitted in its June statement that: "Trade concerns have contributed to volatility in global equity prices and corporate bond spreads, as well as falls in industrial metals prices. Forward interest rates in major economies have fallen materially further. ...

Chief economist update: Cash is King

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2019
... months. At the same time, allocations to equities dropped to a net 21% underweight - the smallest since March 2009 - while bond allocations increased from 34% underweight to a net 22% underweight (might be counter-intuitive but given low/very low bond ...

Pension giant cuts tobacco

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2019
... offload tobacco on Nest's behalf is Amundi. "We do not see attractive risk reward of the tobacco sector in the emerging market bond universe and the market share is fairly modest in the emerging market debt space. Nest's decision to go tobacco-free is ...

Chief economist update: Expect more of the same from the BOJ

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2019
... the financial system and the economy in general. It maintained interest rate settings at its April meeting, as well as its bond buying programme - an annual pace of increase of about ¥80 trillion. Chances are the BOJ will offer more of the same when ...

Frat house ponzi scheme charged

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUN 2019
... $269,000 from at least eight college students, recent graduates, or their family members, SEC said. He offered investors bond agreements with a fixed rate of return plus principal back or in a hedge fund named Artis Proficio Capital claiming it had returned ...

Russell Investments names wholesale partnerships lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2019
... Australia's oldest companies, Gowing Bros. Prior to Gowings, he was the general manager of Centuria Capital's investment bond division for more than three years. Michael Blake, formerly Centuria Capital's head of sales and marketing, was appointed ...

J.P. Morgan cuts management fees

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2019
J.P. Morgan Asset Management Australia has slashed management fees on all bond funds by nearly a third. From 1 June 2019, management fees for the following bond funds have been reduced: JPMorgan Global Strategic Bond Fund - from 0.60% to 0.40%; JPMorgan ...

Chief economist update: US recession in the offing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2019
... day and last trading day of May - Dow (1.41%), S&P 500 (1.32%), Nasdaq (1.51%), Russell 2000 (1.35%). Meanwhile, 10-year US bond yields closed at 2.14% - the lowest since January this year - and the VIX index jumped by 18.2% on the day. Wall Street's ...