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IFM Investors ready to ramp up corporate lending

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020
... Royal Adelaide Hospital. Its returns in lending to companies range from BBSW plus 250 to 400 bps for large caps, investment grade to BBSW plus 450 to 800/900 bps in sub-investment grade lending with a three to five-year tenor. Wanigasekera said it has ...

Sentiment weakens as macro threats loom

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
... come down, notwithstanding some defaults that can come through," he said. Central banks have so far propped up investment grade credit, securitised assets and equity markets - however this has been driven largely by healthcare, and technology, he said. ...

Opportunities exist in high yield: Eaton Vance

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2020
... investment manager seeing opportunity in European high yield markets. Companies that have been downgraded from investment grade; fallen angles, were also an opportune area for high-yield investors, it argued. "We've seen a slew of downgrades in the US ...

Investors back corporate bonds as COVID-19 winner

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
... environment, corporate bonds will still provide investors with the income they so desperately need, he said. "Investment grade corporate bonds are probably the pick of the bunch right now, as companies become focused on deleveraging (or lowering their ...

Asset consultant expands into retail market

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2020
... space if it doesn't fit our purpose. "At the end of the day, it's all about delivering on our promise which is investment out performance over the longer term."

Fortescue seeks to hide pricing

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2020
... printing the discounts which the company circulates to customers and prospective customers for the contract sale of low-grade seaborne iron ore fines. FMG is the fourth largest mining company in the world, and the largest solo iron ore producer. Argus ...

Junk by name, junk by nature?

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... These bonds attract credit ratings by houses such as Moody's or S&P of BBB- and lower, meaning they are sub-investment grade. This lower credit rating usually relates to higher debt levels (like banks), higher operational costs (like airlines) or ...

Australian fund regulation below average: Morningstar

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... we are looking for policy that ultimately empowers investor success, like tax incentives that encourage individual investment and effective regulation of funds that promotes transparency and limits misleading statements and conflicts of interest," he ...

A case for flexible asset allocation: First Sentier

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
Investment managers with fixed multi-asset allocations may have been better served by a flexible approach during the COVID-19 crisis. That's according to First Sentier Investors, who argue a flexible, dynamic multi-asset approach to investing can ...

Opportunities in fixed interest during crisis

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2020
... pockets of opportunity opening up - particularly some of the higher quality companies." On the global scale, investment grade credit is down on average about 5%, hybrids are down 15%, while the high yield market and loans are down 15-20%, Sivapalan said. ...