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SPIVA report paints sad picture for active management

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2016
... LargeMidCap Index. Only 15% of Australian equity A-REIT managers outperformed the S&P/ASX 200 A-REIT, and 87% of Australian bond managers underperformed the S&P/ASX Australian Fixed Interest 0+ Index. Commenting impartially on the new data, the report ...

Nikko handed Japanese fixed income mandate

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2016
Nikko Asset Management Australia's fixed income team has been awarded its first Japanese institutional mandate, effective this month. The fund manager said the new partnership, which sees Nikko AM manage a tailored Australian fixed income solution for ...

UBS releases mFund basket

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2015
... mFund. These are: the UBS Australian Small Companies Fund, UBS Microcap Fund, UBS HALO Australian Share Fund, UBS Australian Bond Fund, UBS Diversified Credit Fund, UBS Diversified Fixed Income Fund, UBS Tactical Beta Fund - Balanced, UBS Tactical Beta ...

SPIVA report shows most active managers beaten by index again

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2015
... active funds (89.55%) underperformed the benchmark over five years. In the fixed income space, not a single active Australian bond fund outperformed its benchmark over a one-year period and only 13.73% beat the S&P/ASX Australian Fixed Interest Index ...

Long term super fund returns approach record levels

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015
SelectingSuper has released its final MySuper performance index for 2014/15 confirming that while fund returns dipped below double digit to 9.5% due the 4% fall in equity markets in June, three and five year returns are approaching record high levels. ...

FIIG to arrange record bond issue

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2015
... a very positive development because it recognises that private companies such as SCT Logistics can access the Australian bond market, reinforcing the maturity of the market and servicing the diversification needs of both investors and issuers." The SCT ...

Rising bond yields a blip

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2015
... Australia (RBA) and means the next move in the Australian cash rate is most likely to be downwards. "Meaning that Australian bond yields have probably risen too far," Roberts said. "It also implies that the downward correction in the Australian sharemarket ...

Budget for uncertainty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... of the RBA's afterthought of putting back its forward guidance to "adjust policy as needed". It couldn't be the Australian bond market - 10-year yields hardly budged up a mere 0.01% to 2.85% on the day but down from its most recent high of 2.99% (7 May). ...

Bond bears out of hibernation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
... who bought euro tenners are down 4.9%; those who purchased JGBs and gilts are off 1.26% and 2.3%, respectively. Australian bond investors' eyes are still smiling though - they're still up 2.6% this year to date. However, returns have come down from the ...

Overseas investors flocking to Australian bonds

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2015
BlackRock is seeing massive flows from Japanese clients into Aussie dollar bond funds as a result of quantitative easing in the Asian country. Investment strategist and head of fixed income, Steve Miller, told a briefing recently the flows in to Aussie ...