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Chief economist update: This is a job for the RBA (and the Treasury)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2019
... cash rate to a new record low of 0.75%. The All Ordinaries index gained 0.5% and the yield on 10-year Australian government bonds fell to 1.06% (1.13%) as investors switched to these relatively higher yielding assets. The Australian Bureau of Statistics' ...

Plato to raise $200 million

KRISTI CHENG  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2019
... retirees to live off the income from cash and fixed income" given current 1% RBA cash rates and 10-year Commonwealth Government Bonds trading at a yield below 1%. "Given the recent election result, retirees can continue to bank on receiving franking ...

Chief economist update: Greater than the Great Recession of 2008

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2019
... Member Banks are likely to be timid about buying new investments or making loans. If the Reserve authorities buy government bonds in the open market and thereby swell bank reserves, the banks will not put these funds to work but will simply hold reserves. ...

Chief economist update: Global easing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2019
... 0.1% since January 2016 and in September of the same year, the BOJ announced: "The Bank will purchase Japanese government bonds (JGBs) so that 10-year JGB yields will remain more or less at the current level (around zero percent)". Safe-haven yen purchases ...

Chief economist update: Bonds do the limbo rock

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2019
... they go? Be afraid, be very afraid. A great number of investors are buying into the relative safety of long-term government bonds despite their dwindling yields, and in the case of the Japanese and Eurozone 10-year government bonds, negative yields - ...

IPIF names investment lead, launches capital raise

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2019
... been strong as it is seen by investors as a reliable income option. "Infrastructure in a portfolio sits between government bonds and equities in terms of risk and return, making it an excellent portfolio diversifier and source of consistent income," ...

New Bond ETF for BetaShares

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2019
... years. BetaShares chief executive Alex Vynokur said: "This is our first product that offers specific exposure to government bonds, a category that enjoys the highest level of investor security within the Australian bond market." He explained that because ...

Credit fund launches to wholesale investors

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2019
... Research (IIR). From its risk perspective, IIR said the fund sits between the relatively low returns from cash and government bonds but materially below the risk of a well-managed corporate debt investment mandate. Moelis Australia Asset Management is ...

Melbourne boutique hires portfolio manager

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2019
... governments with a credit rating of AA or AAA in Australian dollars. The allocations are tilted towards Australian government bonds, state bonds (where it doesn't invest West of Melbourne, in mining states) and supranational bonds. But last March ...

Saxo launches digital access to Chinese bonds

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2019
... CNH (offshore Chinese yuan) as the settlement currency. "With options to invest in, for example Chinese onshore government bonds and central bank paper, institutional clients get simple, efficient automated access to a market that has historically been ...