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Coalition to boost retail access to corporate bonds

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2019
... of the 2019 Federal Budget, the Morrison Government has committed to consulting on reforms to develop the corporate bond market. Following the release of the Budget, Assistant Treasurer Stuart Robert said: "A strong retail corporate bond market will ...

Chief economist update: Rosy assumptions a Budget surplus make

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2019
... Australia enjoyed a Budget surplus (to the point that speculations back then was that Australia doesn't need a bond market no longer, it doesn't need to borrow money from the rest of the world) - when the surplus, equivalent to 1.7% of GDP in ...

Chief economist update: Woe to the world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2019
... scratching your heads by now, start scratching, for the preceding two charts suggest complacency (greed?) among equity and bond market investors alike. A contrarian indicator if you will - bearing in mind Warren Buffet's advice to be "fearful when ...

Chief economist update: Be fearful when indicators show no fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2019
... scratching your heads by now, start scratching, for the preceding two charts suggest complacency (greed?) among equity and bond market investors alike. A contrarian indicator if you will - bearing in mind Warren Buffet's advice to be "fearful when ...

Saxo launches digital access to Chinese bonds

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2019
... market that has historically been complicated and cumbersome for foreign investors to access," Saxo said. The Chinese bond market has an estimated worth of $12 trillion, with Chinese bonds being increasingly added to global indices. "This means that ...

Chief economist update: Fed fail

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 DEC 2018
We might just be heading to witness once again the truth about the old adage on Wall Street that "a bull market doesn't die of old age, the Fed murders it." As expected, the US Federal Reserve raised the fed funds rate by 25 basis points to 2.25%-2.5% ...

Special Report: Hitting new ETF goals

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2018
... the funds' NAV. Research shows bond ETFs on average trade four to five times more frequently than the underlying bond market, he notes. Perhaps the biggest benefit of fixed income ETFs, he says, is lower transaction costs derived from units of ETFs ...

TCorp sets green bond record

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2018
... recently raised $1.8 billion to fund the NSW Government's first green bond. It is a record for the Australian green bond market. Launched on November 8, the green bond issue had a minimum size of $500 million but attracted bids of about $2.6 billion. ...

Chief economist update: US bond yield jump made FTSE slump

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2018
... forward interest rate hikes would be "at a gradual pace and to a limited extent." However, the recent sell-off in the US bond market has hit the FTSE 100 harder than its counterparts, dropping by 1.2%. This compares with losses of: 0.9% for the S&P 500 ...

Chief economist update: That other Fed policy towards normalcy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2018
... the yield on 10-year US Treasury bonds surging by 12 bps to 3.18% - the highest rate since mid-2011 - overnight, the bond market doesn't seem to be completely buying this strong growth, stable and low inflation scenario. Eco 101 dictates that strong ...