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New Vanguard modelling tool picks global equities to win

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 1 DEC 2014
A newly launched simulation and forecasting engine developed by Vanguard has tipped global equities as the most likely asset class to achieve a 6% to 9% annualised return over the next decade. The range is roughly the same level of return targeted by ...

The name is bonds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2014
... oh, they're now down to October 2013 levels - the time when taper was still speculation. Normally, I would check the yield curve - the difference between yields at the long end and those at the short -- to divine what the bond market is saying. But these ...

The good, the good and the dollar-A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2013
... yields started rising above 2.0%. It's all for the best. It's all for normalisation of monetary policy. A steepening yield curve signals economic growth, does it not? But it isn't only Uncle Sam that has an exclusive on good news. There's good news from ...

$1tr flows into US bond funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2013
... reaction investment managers are worrying about, yields on 30 year bonds are now 3.2%, notes Bloomberg figures. The yield curve for Australian bonds is not so steep, however, while 10 year bond yields are now 3.5%, yields on 15 year bonds are just 3.8% ...

Tyndall develops fixed income info kit

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2012
An information kit has been developed by asset manager Tyndall AM to help advisers explain how fixed income works to their clients. It will include eight fact sheets on different aspects of fixed income, such as credit markets, covered bonds, and the ...

Super Mario to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2012
... programme when they will be regaining bond market access. Transactions will be focused on the shorter part of the yield curve, and in particular on sovereign bonds with a maturity of between one and three years. No ex ante quantitative limits are set ...

AIMA helping super funds plan HF moves

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2012
... low vol returns will capture the interest of quasi fixed interest investors that don't want to get caught when the yield curve changes."

Premium China expands distribution team

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012
... Western economies have interest rates close to zero, if there is any actual interest rate increase, because of the yield curve bond prices will literally halve overnight," Wu said. "People who are in what they thought were low risk income funds or yield ...

Lonsec: Australian equity markets ready to rebound

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2012
... Bill Keenan Lonesec's, head of equity research. "The two most important reasons are firstly, a lower cash rate (and yield curve) lowers the return from cash, term deposits and bonds. "Secondly, the cost of debt is reduced which improves the disposable ...

The Fed, the ECB and the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2012
... and 2011? Boyoboyoboy, Australia's certainly heading for trouble now. For these are the periods when the Australian yield curve inverted, i.e., the yield on 10-year bonds was lower than the cash rate. The one that heralds an economic slowdown six to ...