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CIO says low bond market rates to continue

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2015
... beneficiary has been long-term US Treasuries." Leech added that investment grade credit is pretty reasonably priced and high yield has a similar backdrop. "The fundamentals matter and high yield has been widening pretty sharply. There is fear defaults ...

Instos seeking co-designed mandates

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2015
Low interest rates and suppressed yields have prompted Australia's largest institutional investors to seek co-designed mandates. Omega Global Investors managing director George Vassos says larger investors are increasingly seeking discrete mandates ...

Retirees should expand asset classes

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2015
... should consider equities in retirement," Maslen said. "And note that we're in a somewhat unusual situation today, when the yield on equities is higher than that on bonds. That's happened only very few times in the last 60 years. So not only are you getting ...

The moment of truth cometh

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2015
... from 1.3% in the previous month. This is almost where inflation expectations are. At the close of last week's trading the yield differential between the nominal 5-year US Treasury bond and 5-year Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS) is 1.20%. ...

VicSuper awards $100m corporate bonds mandate

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2015
... identifying value on a risk-adjusted basis across the fixed interest and credit markets at a time when the search for defensive yield is becoming increasingly difficult. "When investment markets experience increasing levels of volatility, investor return ...

FIIG offers Apple bonds

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2015
... of 3.7% paid semi-annually. After trading at a premium due to excess demand in the secondary market, it is now offering a yield to maturity of 3.49%. The other Apple bonds are a 4-year floating rate note offering a yield to maturity of 2.61%, and a 4-year ...

Labour market says go, inflation says no

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2015
... raise inflation expectations... and they're not. Inflation expectations - measured by the differential between the nominal yield on US Treasuries and Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS) - indicate that price growth would remain below the Fed's ...

Super Mario returns fire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
Shots fired! Shots fired! Yes Virginia, Super Mario returned overnight and shot down the euro, putting smiles on the faces of holders of Eurozone stocks - Stoxx 600 up 2.4% -- and bonds - 10-year yields fell across the region. The euro dropped to as ...

Member activism could hurt super returns

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
... superannuation returns. The recent campaign against HESTA's exposure to Transfield has highlighted the risks that super funds could yield to member pressure and exit key investments. Over the last few months, HESTA, NGS Super, UniSuper and First State ...

Property rally drives Charter Hall results up

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... quality Australian property to remain attractive to both domestic and off shore investors, given the high Australian property yield spread to bond yields and that the cost of debt remains near record lows," he said. The group funded $1.9 billion of acquisitions ...