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Rest pays out $1bn, calls for policy certainty

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
... Australia's economic development and recovery, she added. Doyle said the fund recognised five years ago the need for long-term debt to fund major infrastructure in Australia. The fund currently has about $8 billion invested in Australian infrastructure ...

Australia approaches fiscal cliff: UBS

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2020
... but with end dates in sight, UBS has warned of an impending fiscal cliff. With JobKeeper and Jobseeker packages as well as debt deferrals scheduled to end, household cash flow spending would likely contract sharply in the fourth quarter 2020, UBS said. ...

Few funds immune to ERS

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
Fears super funds with memberships concentrated in the industries hit hardest by the COVID-19 shutdown would feel the pain of early release more are proving largely unfounded, with funds of all kinds seeing withdrawals. While much speculation surrounded ...

March ASX200 volatility worse than GFC

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
... the collapse of Lehman Brothers, Black Monday on 8 August 2011 which followed the credit rating downgrade of US sovereign debt, the US and Chinese flash market crashes of 24 August 2015 and news on Donald Trump's likely election victory on 9 November ...

Australia facing largest ever GDP fall

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2020
... "Overall, the economic data has been sobering." Frydenberg said that while there will be a significant increase in government debt, the stimulus measures were designed to protect the "structural integrity" of the budget. "Australians know there is no ...

Pengana eyes fully franked dividend

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2020
... objective of paying at least five cents pers share in the medium to long term. "The company has total assets of $320 million, no debt, investments in highly liquid global companies and a disciplined investment management team that has demonstrated its ...

Fundamentals return to the forefront in EM

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2020
Eaton Vance has released a new research report finding fundamentals are returning to the forefront in emerging market debt. The research found volatility related to the COVID-19 outbreak and dramatic oil price decline in Q1 2020 precipitated a large ...

Investors back corporate bonds as COVID-19 winner

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
... corporate bonds are probably the pick of the bunch right now, as companies become focused on deleveraging (or lowering their debt metrics)," Innes said. "As a corporate bond investor, you sit higher up in the capital structure and benefit when chief ...

Cbus ready to deploy cash

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
... looked at in the past but just because we couldn't get terms that we felt comfortable with, they didn't protect the debt investors as well as we would have liked...a number of those opportunities have now come back to us because the players who ...

Emerging markets weather varied COVID-19 storms

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
... but also in Africa and the Middle East. While countries struggle to battle the coronavirus, the portfolio managers warned debt could end up working in opposition to minority shareholders. "Countries with large current account deficits and foreign-denominated ...