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Electricity sale fit for fixed income portfolios

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2015
... Australian fixed income investors. Aberdeen senior Australian fixed income investment manager, John Manning, said the local bond market "is well-positioned to play a meaningful role in funding these networks as they adopt efficient capital structures ...

FIIG launches Amazon-inspired bond platform

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2015
... requests. The new platform is in line with a number of initiatives the company has launched in a bid to open up the bond market to Australian investors. Back in 2010 the company launched its DirectBonds Service which cut the minimum parcel size for corporate ...

Smart beta, fixed income ETFs surge

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2015
... the former offers greater choice. Though fixed income exchange traded products account for just 0.3% of the global bond market, there has been growing interest. The area could be one of huge opportunity for product providers, Manchanda said. Institutions ...

FIIG inks $60m corporate bond deal

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2015
... option to invest in fixed and / or floating rate bonds, in another positive development for the expanding Australian bond market for midsized corporates."

Australian Unity fund added to Emerald Wrap

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2015
... was developed in a joint venture partnership with Australian Unity and applies an "ethical overlay" to the corporate bond market which screens for ESG criteria.

FIIG assists on $40 million corporate bond issuance

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2015
... statement to the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). "This is a great time for Australian corporates to access the bond market because there is a lot of unmet demand from investors for products offering a steady income at a higher yield than is currently ...

Australia's coming $32bn SIB sector

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2015
... predicted they will reach $32 billion over the same period, which given Australia's lack of an established corporate bond market could make SIBs an investment class worth considering. McClure said on SKY News when he released his report that SIBs are ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015
Weak commodity prices and big losses on Wall Street have dragged the Australian share market lower. Fears of a US rate rise in June have hurt the US and Australian equity markets and a stronger US dollar is weakening commodity prices, CMC Markets chief ...

The die is cast

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2015
... tragedy - but known in Greece as "money or we Grexit" thriller. But there was certainly no conflict of emotions in the bond market. Yields on 10-year euro area bonds dropped another 8 basis points to a record low 0.26%. They've fallen all of 27 bps this ...

New online bond researcher launches

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2015
... Fixed income researcher BondAdviser was launched today through an online portal. Created with the goal of making the bond market more approachable to investors, BondAdviser monitors all ASX-listed interest rate securities and a "large range" of over-the-counter ...