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Nikko handed Japanese fixed income mandate

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2016
... rates, Japanese investors are increasingly looking to mobilise their savings into investments other than Japanese government bonds. In this environment, higher yielding Australian bonds offer an attractive alternative, Nikko AM said. "This win demonstrates ...

Four bazookas and a phrase

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2016
... grade euro-denominated bonds by non-banks (corporate bonds) will now be added to the existing list that includes government bonds, bank issued covered bonds and asset asset-back securities. TLTRO II. "...we decided to launch a new series of four targeted ...

T+2 settlement arrives on Monday

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2016
... cycles and conventions remain the same. Secondary market products include Commonwealth treasury bonds and semi government bonds which are not near maturing; supernational; corporate bonds and commonwealth inflation bonds. T+2 settlement already operates ...

Who can dig a deeper hole?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2016
... Swedish central bank cut interest rates by 15 bps down to minus 0.5% and stated that it would continue buying government bonds over the next six months to support growth lift inflation - Sweden's core inflation rate have been weakening from 1.1% in October ...

Alternatives drove Permal and EnTrust marriage

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2016
... strategies. "On the private credit side, I've seen multiple consultant studies that highlight the fact that traditional government bonds won't get you your yield targets, corporate bonds neither," he said. "You could argue that high yield these days ...

Vanguard notches fourth successive year of record inflows

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2016
... letter to shareholders. "My advice to the trustee couldn't be more simple: Put 10% of the cash in short-term government bonds and 90% in a very low-cost S&P 500 index fund. (I suggest Vanguard's,)" Buffett said at the time. "I believe the trust's long-term ...

AustralianSuper merges investment options

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2016
... invests in a broader range of securities and strategies across Australian and international securities and includes government bonds, non-government bonds and high-yield loans. It is mostly hedged in to Australian dollars to reduce the impact of currency ...

SIV interest wanes after rule changes

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015
... risk yet offer lower returns than they can achieve in their home market, which is why they previously favoured government bonds and property." Eugene Chen, another partner with the firm, said allowing investment in residential property is one way to ...

Did ECB under-deliver or markets over-expect?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2015
... increase); reinvestment of principal payments (ala Fed) and expansion of purchases to include local and regional government bonds. But give the ECB president a break. Just imagine a world where central bank actions are dictated by their whims and tantrums ...

Share market risk returns are a lucky dip: Challenger

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2015
Investing in equities over government bonds is equivalent to taking a spin on the wheel of fortune according to research published jointly by Challenger and Drew, Walk & Co. The research says equity risk premiums (ERP) - the additional equity return ...