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Investment manager launches income fund

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2020
... historical default rate," he said. "In corporate bonds and bank loans, Ares' strategies have shown resilience in times of stress versus the broader market."

Chief economist update: Bad news is good news is back

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2020
... slips. Never mind, too, that the March employment numbers showed there were even more workers out of work that month - 870K versus the initial estimate of 701K. To top these all, the CBOE VIX index - the fear gauge - has fallen to a reading of 27.98 ...

Chief economist update: Will emerging markets be first to emerge?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
... 6.1% (from growth of 1.6% forecast in January 2020). This provides a strong case to overweight emerging equity markets versus developed ones. They have lesser cases of infection and are unlocking lockdown restrictions (notably, China) earlier than their ...

Aussie equities winners, losers revealed

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2020
... on the alpha created by good active managers and the value that can be saved avoiding the bad ones, rather than active versus passive strategies. Currently, passive investment funds account for more than 30% of the funds in the Australian equity market. ...

BlackRock turns optimistic on credit

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... They provide little cushion against major risk events, but would not add to our underweight after recent underperformance versus US Treasuries."

Why COVID-19 could boost ESG

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2020
... positive correlation market performance and ESG scores. Each ESG rating level was worth around 2.8% of stock performance versus the index during pandemic, Fidelity said. In the 36 days between February 19 and March 26, the S&P 500 fell 26.9%. Fidelity ...

A decade in the dust

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... which EM countries are at greatest risk, we tend to look at which have a large amount of debt denominated in US dollars versus which economies are able to independently manage monetary and fiscal policy. "China is firmly is in the latter bucket." Over ...

Australia versus the world

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
While industry professionals praised the government's stimulus package, the International Monetary Fund seems convinced it's not enough. So who is right? The IMF predicted that global growth will be -3.3% this year, while Australia's GDP will be significantly ...

Chief economist update: BOK holds as infections ease

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2020
... year-to-date loss by more than half to -16.1% from -33.7%. Similarly, South Korea has more than recouped its 5.2% depreciation versus the US dollar, rebounding by 5.4% from the March 19 low. These, perhaps factored into Bank of Korea's (BOK) decision ...

Plenty still want in on ETPs: Research

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020
... ETPs, however, with reported traded value being two and a half times the size of February's traded value ($17.8 billion versus $7.2 billion)," Dyall said. Suffering the highest net outflows was the Australian High Interest Cash Fund, which lost $257 ...