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GIC's investment chief to step down

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2025
... GIC's investments into alternative assets like unlisted companies and real estate and reducing reliance on stocks and bonds. For his part, Yeo joined GIC in 2003 as a portfolio manager with the fixed income team before holding senior roles, including ...

Trump's response to global conflict adds uncertainty to private markets: IFM

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2025
... "slightly below its current target," according to IFM's outlook. It also anticipated that equities will remain preferable to bonds - even though equity market gains are expected to be "far more measured" this year. "Equities have seemingly priced in ...

Monetary policy to underscore 2025 allocations

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2025
... underscoring the need to focus on long-term drivers like relative valuation pricing metrics, particularly inflation linked bonds because a rally in real bond yields would be a positive for property - and vice versa if a sell-off occurs. "... we're ...

Investors should stay the course in 2025: Expert

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 9 JAN 2025
... advantage through the booming bond market. "Investors could probably achieve these lower return goals by focusing more on bonds, which is probably not where investors had their eyes on a few years ago when the asset class was not delivering the results ...

Super balances drive household wealth growth

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 DEC 2024
... billion), general government ($44.6 billion) and households ($19.2 billion). "Commonwealth government issuance of Treasury bonds was the highest since September quarter 2020, driven largely by increased funding requirements," Tan said.

TCorp buys Euroclear stake from LSEG

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 13 DEC 2024
... involves divesting non-core assets. Euroclear provides settlement and custody of domestic and cross-border securities for bonds, equities, derivatives and funds, as well as collateral management services, across 50 different markets and in 45 currencies. ...

Danielle Press joins Income Asset Management

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2024
... Myer Family Company and Equip Super. The appointment comes as IAM launches the IAM Listed Bond ETF, which makes corporate bonds available to all investors. IAM chair John Nantes said Press joins the group at an exciting time, explaining that her role ...

Active managers outperform in limited asset classes, fall short in survivorship

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 18 NOV 2024
... Active fund managers tend to outperform their passive counterparts in certain categories like Australian equity income and bonds, but the latter has better survivorship rates, according to Morningstar's latest Active/Passive Barometer report. The analysis ...

Betashares launches ethical fixed income ETF

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 7 NOV 2024
Betashares launched its first-ever ethical fixed income ETF, claiming the strategy will only invest in Australian bonds that are ethically screened. The Betashares Ethical Australian Composite Bond ETF (ASX: AEBD) offers investors exposure to a range ...

US election: Global investors fear inflation boom

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 7 NOV 2024
... long-term bond yields. Miller said worries about the already gargantuan US deficit will undermine the attractiveness of US bonds as a "safe haven" investment but said gold could benefit. "Such fears had driven the gold price to record highs (before last ...