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Trump's helping hand

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 NOV 2016
... banks have been trying desperately to achieve since Bush junior was still president. Sure losses are being made in the bond market - 10-year US Treasury yields closed at 2.35% last week (the highest in 12 months) from 1.86% pre-Trump -- as inflation ...

Trump is heaven's gift to central banks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2016
... spending - and tax cuts -- begets better sales and profits begets higher stock prices begets wealth effect... But the bond market is worried, underscored by spike in US 10-year bond yields to 2.2% -- the highest level in 10 months. The bond market is ...

FirstChoice Alternatives adds new macro manager

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 NOV 2016
Colonial First State's FirstChoice Alternatives portfolio has added a new macro investment manager and hit a new funds under management milestone. London based discretionary macro manager H20 Asset Management was recently added to the portfolio, taking ...

Aussie bonds attractive to global investors

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 OCT 2016
... global pension funds and central banks attending its events and seeking expertise to better understand the Australian bond market. Addressing the bank's ninth Annual Global Markets Conference in Sydney, CBA head of fixed income research Adam Donaldson ...

Aussie government bond flaunts confidence

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 13 OCT 2016
... volatility in interest rates on the government's budget over time. It will also further diversify the government's bond market investor base by attracting investors with an appetite for very long dated maturities, for example, pension funds, life insurance ...

Saxo launches digital bond trading solution

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 13 SEP 2016
... Australia chief executive Ben Smoker said the digital bond trading solution will connect traders with the entire global bond market in a direct, competitive, transparent, and efficient manner. "Large institutional investors have had access to fixed income ...

FIIG bolsters managed bonds service

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2016
... management of investment grade senior and subordinated bonds, offering a more diverse range of entry points to the bond market and is extremely transparent with details available to investors online regarding performance, valuations, transactions and ...

Investors missing healthy returns amid bond fears

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2016
... pleasant, but it falls far short of the Dooms-Day predictions generated by those who believe in a near-and-present bond market supernova," Grow finished.

Sell everything (again?)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2016
... massively but investors seem to have been hypnotized that nothing can go wrong." He's betting on gold and gold miners. Bond market king Bill Gross echoes Gundlach view, "If we see fiscal stimulation in Japan China and ultimately the US after the election ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2016
... in its cash management task around the time of bond maturities and "contribute to an orderly and efficient Treasury Bond market". AOFM said they will manage this process through the Registered Bidders in the AOFM Tender System. Regular buyback tenders ...