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Danish pension fund dumps US bonds

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JAN 2026
A Danish pension fund is divesting all US government bonds from February 1, citing the country's growing debt crisis. Akademiker Pension, the $36 billion pension fund for academics, is selling off all its US government bond holdings, to the tune ...

US election: Global investors fear inflation boom

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 7 NOV 2024
... long-term bond yields. Miller said worries about the already gargantuan US deficit will undermine the attractiveness of US bonds as a "safe haven" investment but said gold could benefit. "Such fears had driven the gold price to record highs (before last ...

Pacific Current sells European boutique

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2024
Pacific Current Group (PAC) has offloaded Carlisle Management Company to a NASDAQ-listed alternatives asset manager. Abacus Life has agreed to acquire Carlisle in full. It will pay for the acquisition via a combination of Abacus bonds and common stock. ...

Chief economist update: Inflation scare

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAY 2021
... the Dow by 1.99; the S&P 500 by 2.1%; the Nasdaq composite by 2.7%; and the Russell 2000 by 3.3%. The yield on 10-year US bonds increased to 1.70% from 1.62% the day before. The VIX index - the fear gauge - soared by 26.3% to a reading of 27.59 (the ...

US bonds present ESG problem

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2019
Schroders' global head of stewardship believes ESG-focused investors should exercise caution before investing in US corporate bonds. Schroders global head of stewardship Jessica Ground told a media briefing in Sydney recently that some US corporate ...

Chief economist update: Fear and loathing on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2018
... unchanged at 2.2% in the year to September, inflation expectations - based on the yield differential between 10-year nominal US bonds and the 10-year TIPS is at 1.95% (a smidgen off the Fed's 2% target). Speaking of which, consensus expectations ...

Chief economist update: Blame and trim

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2018
... expectations beget higher actual inflation. US inflation expectations - as measured by the yield differential between nominal US bonds and TIPs - haven't risen sharply. The differential on the 5-year's currently at 2.1% from 1.9% at the start ...

Chief economist update: It wasn't me, it's the Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2018
... expectations beget higher actual inflation. US inflation expectations - as measured by the yield differential between nominal US bonds and TIPs - haven't risen sharply. The differential on the 5-year's currently at 2.1% from 1.9% at the start ...

Chief economist update: Wall Street has fallen, prepare to be greedy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2018
... all the talk over surging US inflation, inflation expectations - as measured by the yield differential between nominal US bonds and TIPs - haven't risen sharply. The differential on the 5-year's currently at 2.1% from 1.9% at the start of 2018 ...

Chief economist update: Shanghai's drop is China's problem, the yuan's slide is everyone's

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUN 2018
... slide by dipping into its reserves. But the fear at the time was that if it fails it would have to sell its holdings of US bonds. This was Bloomberg's report on 16 February 2018: "The value of China's holdings of US bonds, notes and bills rose ...
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