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PROFILE: HESTA chief executive Debby Blakey

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2015
... considerably smaller pension funds, which are required to invest in certain asset classes. "Mostly defensive assets such as cash or bonds," she adds. "In Australia there was none of that. The super funds' job was all about investing to deliver the best ...

FIIG launches Amazon-inspired bond platform

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2015
Fixed income broker FIIG Securities has launched an online ordering system for corporate bonds which simplifies buying and selling bonds in the over-the-counter market. Clients and financial advisers can use the system to browse a range of bonds, access ...

FIIG inks $60m corporate bond deal

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015
... technology products distributor Dicker Data. McPherson's bond issue will be comprised of $30 million in four year floating rate bonds maturing in 2019 and $30 million in six year fixed rate bonds maturing in 2021. The net proceeds of the offering will ...

A win-win currency war?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2015
... lower and the VIX index rising... and then the tantrum tapered. Financial markets learned to live with it. Yields on 10-year bonds - 2.05% currently - are now even lower than the 3.0% rate at the end of 2013 when the Fed made good on the taper. The S&P ...

FEATURE: How ETFs are changing adviser asset allocation thinking

LAURA MILLAN, ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2015
... evolution generally starts off with ETFs being issued around recognised mainstream benchmark indices," he says, "whether it's bonds or equities or domestic or international, and then you see through time there's some competition and then the evolution ...

Australia's coming $32bn SIB sector

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2015
... in February, one important aspect that seems to have escaped the gaze of commentators was its advocacy of social impact bonds (SIB). SIBs, also sometimes called Social Benefit Bonds, work when a sponsoring group, usually an established charity of social ...

PBOC to QE?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2015
... governments to swap around 1 trillion yuan (US$160 billion) of their higher interest rate borrowings for lower interest bonds. It gained greater traction (and amount) following comments made by Chinese Academy of Social Sciences researcher Liu Yihui ...

The die is cast

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2015
... ECB's first buys are still unavailable but Bloomberg reports that it started small and selective. "...purchases included bonds from at least five countries, the size of individual trades -- at between 15 million euros and 50 million euros"... "according ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2015
... announced it and the national central banks of the euro area have started buying 60 billion euros ($A84 billion) worth of bonds per month in the long-awaited purchase program, known as quantitative easing, aimed at warding off deflation and stimulating ...

Former Future Fund chief executive takes new role

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2015
Former Future Fund chief executive Mark Burgess has been appointed chair of the advisory board of Jamieson Coote Bonds, having retired from his previous position in late 2013. JCB is an active Australian bond fund manager with a focus on Australian ...