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Ratings downgrade to trigger hybrid sell-off

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
... securities and financial planners to dump the hybrids because they were not allowed to hold investments below investment grade. "A downgrade of the major banks' hybrids below investment grade, will force a lot of investors to sell adding to recent selling ...

Moving on up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2014
... ratings agencies -- Fitch Ratings (27 March), Standard & Poor's (3 May) and Moody's (3 October) - last year to investment grade. It's gonna get even better. In just a year and a bit (8 May), Standard & Poor's has again lifted the country's rating one ...

Mercer allocates $150M AXA IM global SmartBeta

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014
Mercer's investment business in Australia has allocated $150 million to AXA Investment Managers' global investment grade SmartBeta credit strategy. The mandate complements other managers within Mercer's global credit portfolio and aims at achieving ...

BRICs without BRI

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2014
... downgraded the B of the BRICs sovereign credit rating to BBB minus - the last grade before Brazil becomes no longer investment grade. "The downgrade reflects the combination of fiscal slippage, the prospect that fiscal execution will remain weak amid ...

Market Vectors ETF gets Lonsec rating

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014
... Vectors), the exchange traded fund (ETF) business of US-based investment manager Van Eck Global, has received an 'Investment Grade Index' rating from research house, Lonsec. "The Market Vectors Australian Equal Weight ETF tracks an index that is new ...

Perpetual appoints fixed income analyst from Deutsche Bank

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2014
... Deutsche Bank, where she spent ten years, most recently as director focusing on origination and underwriting of sub-investment grade debt. Moal has more than 15 years' experience in the credit and fixed income market and she will be supporting Perpetual's ...

Zenith recommends AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund

STAFF REPORTER  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2014
... market," AllianceBernstein's Australian executive director Ross Kent said. The fund invests predominantly in sub-investment grade (high-yield) corporate debt as well as emerging market sovereign and corporate debt. Zenith noted in its rating report that ...

New EM bond rater proposes fresh approach

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 FEB 2014
... provide a differentiated service. He said this includes moving away from the traditional headline filter of 'investment grade' and 'non-investment grade' in preference to grouping bonds according to their probability of default. He acknowledged that ...

Credit to escape impending bond rout

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2014
... allocations to bonds with higher yields, such as emerging market bonds, US high yield credit, and short duration global investment grade corporate bonds," he said. "The higher yields available in a diversified basket of these bonds should offset rising ...

RBA rate cut on cards

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2014
... Plus Fund maintained an overweight to infrastructure and utility assets in 2013, which returned 19%. Australian investment grade floating rate credit also proved an important provider of returns, up 7% in 2013. Bell continues to back these two areas ...