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Bond investors must relax benchmark constraints

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2016
... to revive economic growth and produce modestly positive inflation. The problem is that a large part of the global bond market now deliver negative yields. "Investors need to respond by relaxing the constraints around benchmarks, otherwise they risk weighing ...

CFM alternative beta fund gets Lonsec approval

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 18 JUL 2016
Lonsec has awarded Capital Fund Management's (CFM) Institutional Systematic Diversified Trust (CFM ISDiversified) a "Recommended" rating. The fund has been designed to offer investors a diversified portfolio of well-known and persistent alternative ...

Returning Fed hike expectations could be flattened by yield curve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2016
... May from US$37.4 billion in April - as well as putting downward pressure on US inflation. The longer end of the US bond market appears to be betting on this - with yields on 10-year US Treasuries dropping to 1.36% from 1.74% pre-Brexit and 2.27% at the ...

Alternatives delivering for infra and PE

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2016
Strip infrastructure and private equity out of superannuation funds' alternatives investments and the asset class struggles to deliver its current growth-like returns. This is one of the key pieces of analysis provided by Frontier Advisors at its annual ...

XTBs and SMAs a good match

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2016
... well to date because SMAs sit on technology platforms that require price and volume data feeds to work, which the OTC bond market generally has great difficulty providing. He said XTBs are part of the ubiquitous ASX data feed, so SMAs are easier to construct ...

Westpac prices climate bond at $500m

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2016
Westpac has priced its first climate bond at $500 million, reflecting the continuing interest from investors for products that have an impact on the economy and the environment. The bond will fund 12 Australian projects, including seven wind farms and ...

FIIG launches bond mobile app

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2016
FIIG Securities has launched an app in the hopes of opening up the bond market to investors by providing unprecedented access to information about pricing and availability in the Over-The-Counter bond market. Updated daily the app will show investors ...

BoJ now top 10 shareholder in 200 stocks

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2016
... purchases and also negative interest rates. "To critics already wary of the central bank's outsized impact on the Japanese bond market, the BOJ's growing influence in stocks risks distorting valuations and undermining efforts to improve corporate governance," ...

Fixed income China's sweet spot

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 26 APR 2016
... year bonds) are more attractive than yields in other major developed economies. "At a size of US$7.4 trillion China's bond market is the third largest in the world. Despite this, foreign participation remains low at 1.6% due to long standing quote restrictions ...

FIIG appoints research team head

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2016
... depth and range of our credit research, which has been instrumental in the success of our pioneering work to open the bond market for Australian companies and investors." Commenting on his appointment Bayley said, "I have admired FIIG's work for a long ...