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Bond investors must relax benchmark constraints

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2016
Fixed income investors will risk paying to lose money unless they're prepared to change their approach to benchmarks, according to infrastructure fund manager QIC. Positive yields have been upturned as a number of key central banks have put negative ...

New income fund launches

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUL 2016
A global asset manager is launching its second multi-strategy fund in Australia with the intention of delivering annual income of 4% above the RBA cash rate. Aligning with the idea that investors want their money to work hard and be protected in all ...

Adviser demand drives XTB offering

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2016
... hybrids and a higher return than cash and TD investments, our model portfolios make it easier for advisers to build corporate bond portfolios for clients," Murphy said. "Extraordinary market conditions are driving a growing need for higher-yielding ...

DomaCom prepares to list on ASX

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2016
... book-builds, and subject to regulatory approvals, launch a seniors' equity release product and a fractionalised corporate bond product. "By adding these and other exciting products to our offering, we are giving people the opportunity to build a diversified ...

Legg Mason bond trust upgraded

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUN 2016
The Legg Mason Australian Bond Trust has been upgraded by Zenith to 'Highly Recommended'. The trust is managed by Legg Mason's largest affiliate fund manager, Western Asset Management, a fixed income specialist with $US436 billion under management. ...

XTBs and SMAs a good match

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2016
... portfolio inefficiencies and allowing a greater ability to deliver outcomes-based investment models. Australian Corporate Bond Company chief executive Richard Murphy told a briefing in Sydney yesterday an XTB inside an SMA enables investors to obtain ...

Global bond funds underinvested in EMD

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2016
Australian institutional investors have not achieved optimal exposure to emerging market debt over the past decade because they have depended on broad global bond strategies which have tended to avoid economies which are unduly perceived as very risky. ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2016
... purchases of €80 billion per month to run until March 2017 - while at the same time confirming the commencement of corporate bond purchases on the 8th of June and targeted longer-term refinancing operations (TLTRO II) on the 22nd of this month. The ...

Vanguard launches Australian corporate bond ETF

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2016
Vanguard Australia has launched a new exchange-traded fund (ETF) that offers investors a broadly diversified portfolio of quality corporate bonds. The Vanguard Australian Corporate Fixed Interest Index ETF (ASX: VACF) offers access to around 260 investment-grade ...

AB announces $140m super mandate

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2016
AllianceBernstein has been awarded a $140 million mandate by a super fund to manage a short-duration global credit portfolio. Prime Super, the roughly $3 billion super fund representing industries in rural and regional Australia, appointed AB to manage ...