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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 ...

Active managed fund returns worsen against indices

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2015
... underperformed their respective index benchmarks over the one, three, and five-year periods. Australian A-REIT and Australian bond funds had the worst relative performances, with more than 90% of funds underperforming the S&P/ASX 200 A-REIT and the S&P/ASX ...

FIIG inks $60m corporate bond deal

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015
... the option to invest in fixed and / or floating rate bonds, in another positive development for the expanding Australian bond market for midsized corporates."

Former Future Fund chief executive takes new role

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2015
... 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 government securities. In his new role, Burgess will guide JCB principals Charlies ...

Don't underestimate LNG boom: BNP Paribas

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 4 DEC 2014
... would push up bond yields. With Japanese and European rates still on the floor as a result of quantitative easing, Australian bond yields will attract more capital. "Central banks have increased their allocation to Aussie dollars over the years on the ...

Quo vadis dollar-A?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014
You wouldn't miss it even if you tried. Markit Economics did a dump - a dump of fresh PMI data, that is - but after a brief knee-jerk reaction from the financial markets, everything went back to where they were. As they should. This is because the November ...

FTSE and ASFA launch Australian bond indices

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
... Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) to launch a set of fixed income benchmarks covering the various segments of the Australian bond market. The FTSE ASFA Australia Bond Index Series will provide "a wide variety of index and bond level analytics ...