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AMP Capital appoints NZ fixed income head

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUN 2016
AMP Capital has appointed a new co-head of New Zealand fixed income. Vicky Hyde-Smith has been a part of the AMP Capital New Zealand team since 2001, joining as a fixed income analyst. Prior to that, she was on the proprietary trading team at Sumitomo ...

REST investments executive resigns

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 30 MAY 2016
... contribution he provided to the REST executive and investment teams. Before joining REST, Walsh was previously head of fixed income at VicSuper. He has more than 18 years of financial services and asset management experience and has held various senior ...

Credit ratings agencies sign PRI statement

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2016
... Environment Program (UNEP) Inquiry and a committee of PRI signatories, which include some of the world's largest fixed income investors. PRI managing director Fiona Reynolds said credit rating agencies are a crucial part of the puzzle for identifying ...

Equities out, alternatives in for pension funds

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2016
... 2011 to 13.5% in 2014. As a point of difference, though, equity exposure has generally increased at the expense of fixed income. The US, Canada, Europe, Japan and Australia were the leaders in this "return-seeking behaviour." As an Australian example ...

Fixed income investors turning to Serbia

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2016
Fixed income investors need to focus on new opportunities for return in a low-rate environment, according to T. Rowe Price portfolio manager and head of international fixed income Arif Husain. Speaking at the T. Rowe Price Equities Adviser event in ...

Frontier appoints debt specialist

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2016
... from Chimaera, where he has worked for seven years in both Melbourne and Singapore. Prior to this he was director - fixed income at DBS Asset Management (Singapore) and spent almost a decade as a fixed income portfolio manager at Alliance Bernstein/AXA ...

Vanguard launches Australian corporate bond ETF

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2016
... Interest Index Fund, investors in the ETF are investing in a fund with established scale. Vanguard Australia head of fixed income Stephen Howard said VACF represented an important evolution in the ETF market by providing more options for investors to ...

Omega wins institutional credit mandate

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2016
... director George Vassos said the partnership with Uniting Financial Services began as a conversation to improve the fixed income portion of the client's portfolio within an ESG framework. "We sat down with Uniting's investment team and said: 'OK, Omega's ...

FIIG launches bond mobile app

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2016
... making the bond market accessible to every Australian investor. "The app is the latest milestone in our journey to put Fixed Income on the map in Australia. Giving investors the information they need to get transparency in the OTC Bond market is essential ...

Australia joining global retirement focus: Challenger

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2016
... fund asset allocation is to equities, the second highest in the OECD. "Conversely, we have the lowest allocation to fixed income of any pension system in the first world, according to Willis Towers Watson. Australia's super system is about 9% invested ...