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Junk by name, junk by nature?

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... These bonds attract credit ratings by houses such as Moody's or S&P of BBB- and lower, meaning they are sub-investment grade. This lower credit rating usually relates to higher debt levels (like banks), higher operational costs (like airlines) or ...

A case for flexible asset allocation: First Sentier

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
Investment managers with fixed multi-asset allocations may have been better served by a flexible approach during the COVID-19 crisis. That's according to First Sentier Investors, who argue a flexible, dynamic multi-asset approach to investing can ...

Opportunities in fixed interest during crisis

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2020
... pockets of opportunity opening up - particularly some of the higher quality companies." On the global scale, investment grade credit is down on average about 5%, hybrids are down 15%, while the high yield market and loans are down 15-20%, Sivapalan said. ...

Fixed income liquidity squeeze bites

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
... discount] so you can see exactly what's going on," Chesler says. Another ETF issuer BetaShares, whose Australian Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF ended March 23 trading with a discount of above 3% thinks the same. "What we are seeing right now ...

Challenger shuffles life portfolio asset allocations

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2020
Challenger Life has tilted its investment portfolio away from equities and sub-investment grade fixed income and towards more liquid assets, as COVID-19 sparks volatility in most asset classes. Challenger Life has slashed equity holdings from 13% of ...

Diversification pays off for some, but not all: bfinance

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2020
... as planned for many, a very substantial minority have been disappointed in the results so far in areas such as investment grade credit, hedge funds and multi-asset. "We expect considerable scrutiny of manager selection, strategy selection and asset allocation ...

Active managers: Opportunities abound

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2020
... analysts highlighting instances where we see unique opportunities among specific credits whether or not they are non-investment grade issuers in the US or emerging markets issuers in Asia." Investment opportunities in Asia, particularly China, are ripe ...

Global fixed income trust launched

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2019
... "It invests in corporate government issuers and mortgage-backed and other asset backed securities, as well as investment grade and below-investment-grade debt instruments," MFS said. "Through this global opportunity set, the fund aims to allocate risk ...

First green bond ETF listed

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2019
... 2017. Bonds will only be eligible if they bare denominated in Australian dollars, Euro or US dollars, are rated investment grade at a minimum Standard & Poors or Moody's Investor Services, be at least one year old, have senior or higher ranked debt ...

Global manager hires Principal director

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 NOV 2019
... investors includes strategies in fixed income (high yield, structured credit, private credit, emerging markets and investment grade), equities (EM, small caps, active quant and global equities), alternatives (real estate and private equity) and multi ...