Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 201 - 210 of 4631 results for "bond"

Northern Trust lands another mandate

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2025
Northern Trust has been selected to provide global custody and valuation reporting services for Generation Life. With the new remit, Northern Trust will provide support to $1.5 billion ( as of 31 January 2025 ) of Generation Life's portfolio assets ...

Super fund investment in US to skyrocket

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2025
Australian super funds are expected to pump huge amounts of money into the US over the coming decade, according to a report from Mandala, in conjunction with Super Members Council and IFM Investors. The Going Global report said Australians' superannuation ...

MLC wary of but not opposed to bitcoin

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 24 FEB 2025
MLC chief investment officer Dan Farmer said MLC is open to the possibility of investing in bitcoin in the future, but now is not the right time. "Like many institutional investors, we remain in the 'not now', rather than 'not ever' to bitcoin camp," ...

Alpencrest ramps up expansion, signs Aussie affiliate

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2025
... F3 - Future Females in Finance. By July, Alpencrest will have three Australian unit trusts in the market - Elementum's cat bond, LSN's small cap strategy, and New Mountain Capital's semi-liquid private credit fund. The duo is currently looking to expand ...

Next decade could bring back the conservative portfolio

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 21 FEB 2025
Australian Retirement Trust (ART) chief economist Brian Parker told the Financial Standard Chief Economist Forum that investors should be wary of the coming decade, with more volatility expected. "The last 10 to 20 years, we have seen a rising tide ...

Macquarie AM expands $300m active ETF platform

MATTHEW WAI  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2025
Macquarie Asset Management (MAM) has launched two actively managed fixed income ETFs, bringing its total offerings to seven - four in fixed income and three in equity - with over $300 million assets under management. The Macquarie Global Yield Maximiser ...

Global tariffs to spike under Trump: Economist

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2025
... We're more nimble than we were pre-pandemic, higher for longer interest rates, higher US dollar, and potentially a steeper bond yield curve domestically," she said. In Australia, Masters foresees the cash rate decreasing to 3% in 2026 with a "high ...

RBA delivers 'cautious' cut, road ahead unclear

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2025
... to own the back-end of curve, which provides protection against a global growth slowdown, especially when the Australian bond curve is steep relative to our counterparts."

Economist calls for 35bps rate cut

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2025
... 0.35% to 4.0% - so we can finally get the cash rate cut back to cleaner 0.25% level increments." T. Rowe Price Dynamic Global Bond Strategy co-portfolio manager Scott Solomon said while he expects a rate cut, he believes it will be only 25 basis points. ...

Fiducian FUMAA swell to $14.4bn

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 17 FEB 2025
... business saw assets grow by 16% in the year to December 2024 from $4.8 billion to $5.6 billion. The firm's investment bond option badged through Generation Life reported continued inflows and was created to pre-empt the government's proposed ...