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Bentham hires portfolio manager from Credit Suisse

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2016
... quality asset classes, including senior secured loans, asset backed securities, capital securities, convertible bonds and high yield bonds. Conti's appointment follows a period of solid performance for the firm against a backdrop of challenging markets. ...

PE and VC critical to Aussie growth: AVCAL

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2016
... time, but especially when the market is experiencing low returns globally. As super funds and other investors look for high yield investments, these returns underline the contribution PE and VC can make to portfolios," AVCAL chief executive Yasser El-Ansary ...

Global equities tease income opportunity

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAY 2016
... building income portfolios and instead review the opportunities presented by global equities. "Although international high yield investments do not carry franking credits, they offer access to attractive equity valuations in potentially unvalued markets ...

Bank love affair with wealth management waning

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2016
The wealth management industry has been embroiled in one scandal after another and as it struggles to meet both shareholder and customer demands, a number of big players are re-evaluating their commitment to wealth management. Unlike many international ...

PIMCO Income fund launched in Australia

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2016
... rate risk. Unlike many other income strategies that focus mainly on corporate bonds and can invest without limit in high yield securities, the PIMCO Income fund has specific limits on below investment-grade corporate securities and securities economically ...

Multi-factor investing applies to credit too: Robeco

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2016
... have persistently outperformed over the long term. These factors include low-risk, value, momentum, low volatility, high yield and quality. The method has primarily been associated with the equity portion of portfolios but Robeco believes there is a ...

Western AM says credit to be positive in 2016

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2016
... more acute in higher-beta sectors/industries. Long investment-grade corporates, the energy subsector and lower-rated high yield are at valuations also consistent with recession," he said. "When you compare what the market is pricing, with what Western ...

RBF awards $175m credit mandate

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2016
... RBF's lifecycle option RBF MyPath. Shenkman Capital, with over 30 years of history as a firm, is a pioneer of the US high yield market. Headquartered in New York, New York, Shenkman also has offices in Stamford, CT and London, UK.

Unconstrained bond funds disappoint in 2015

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2016
... 2015, returning only 1.3%. "Our research shows that many unconstrained bond funds are highly correlated with equity and high yield, reflecting the additional credit risk inherent in some unconstrained strategies," said Newman. "This means that when equities ...

Alternatives drove Permal and EnTrust marriage

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2016
... traditional government bonds won't get you your yield targets, corporate bonds neither," he said. "You could argue that high yield these days is trading at more attractive levels but it's not without risk and sensitivity to energy prices. "Private debt ...