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ESG bond portfolio opens to Aussie investors

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2018
A Scottish manager is offering a new ESG fixed income fund to institutional investors in Australia, beginning with $135 million in assets under management. The Cameron Hume Global Fixed Income ESG Fund will hold securities from issuers that the specialist ...

Pinnacle splashes $50m on acquisitions

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUL 2018
Pinnacle Investment Management is acquiring a 40% equity stake in a Melbourne boutique founded by former Vanguard executives and is powering towards another acquisition. The multi-boutique manager is paying $4 million for a 40% equity stake in Omega ...

Chief economist update: Three ayes for a rate hike

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2018
... Rate at 0.5%. The Committee voted unanimously to maintain the stock of sterling non-financial investment-grade corporate bond purchases, financed by the issuance of central bank reserves, at £10 billion. The Committee also voted unanimously to maintain ...

BetaShares launches fixed-rate corporate bond ETF

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2018
... The ETP provider has chosen an index from a German provider for CRED, the Solactive Australian Investment Grade Corporate Bond Select TR Index. "The majority of fixed income indices tend to adopt a market capitalisation approach. While it is well understood ...

Aussie fixed income house partners with Israeli firm

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2018
Australia's largest fixed income specialist, with more than $10 billion in funds under management, is partnering with an Israeli portfolio solution company. FIIG Securities selected Herzliya-based BondIT to provide its relationship managers with ...

Global fixed income manager mulls active bond ETFs

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2018
... to fixed income as at June 2016. Non-SMSF super funds however allocate 21% of assets to fixed income, with large corporate bond parcel sizes proving no barrier to larger funds. According to Kirkham, minimum spends can lock SMSFs out of high grade corporate ...

Robeco wins two mandates worth $500m

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2018
... investments in Robeco's fundamental global credits strategy. The strategy is unconstrained and invests across the corporate bond market, including investment grade bonds in developed markets, high-yield and emerging market debt. "As we continue to ...

Corporate bond demand strengthens: Report

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2018
Momentum in the local corporate bond market is strengthening as investors start to shift from a deeply-rooted property and equities investment culture to defensive assets that preserve capital and generate a reliable income stream. This is according ...

XTB launches ESG fixed income portfolio

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 23 APR 2018
... million in funds under management in 2017 - up 117% over the previous year. In June, 2017 XTB appointed Australian Corporate Bond Company (ACBC) co-founder Ian Martin as its chief investment officer.

Chief economist update: Australian workers, don't expect a pay rise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2018
The latest Australian employment growth stat misses market expectations. The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) update shows that while the unemployment rate remained at 5.5% in March - in line with expectations and unchanged from the January and ...