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Private debt market imbalance to last years

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2012
... 12-14% for Europe and 13-14% in the US - attractive relative to their risk profiles," they added. While the European high yield market looked promising for the leveraged finance market in 1H 2011, new issue high yield volume virtually disappeared in ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2012
The Australian dollar is more than a third of a US cent lower after global stock markets dropped overnight. At 0700 AEDT on Thursday, the Australian dollar was trading at 103.96 US cents, down from 104.35 cents on Wednesday afternoon. Bank of New Zealand ...

Advisers should rethink China exposure

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2012
... "A lot of the debt recently issued in Australia is actually junior debt." "If you look at Chinese bonds against US high yield, we are getting paid more a lot of the time for holding senior debt in Asia over what you get paid for holding high yield in ...

PIMCO lands OnePath advice mandate

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2012
... fixed interest funds. PIMCO will offer ANZ-aligned advisers a range of domestic fixed income, global fixed income and high yield credit funds and actively managed fixed income strategies. "The OnePath mandate represents a significant win for PIMCO and ...

AUI winds up High Yield Mortgage Trust

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 12 DEC 2011
Australian Unity Investments has begun winding up its High Yield Mortgage Trust following poorer than expected returns to investors in the current investment climate. Investors have already been reimbursed by 48 % of the fund's capital, with the remaining ...

Artio brings high yield to Aust instos

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 6 DEC 2011
... York-based investment management firm, Artio Global Investors, is meeting with super funds this week to introduce its new high yield bond investment strategy as a smart alternative to equities. Since opening its first Australian office in Sydney in July ...

Half-filled empty glass

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 NOV 2011
"It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, everywhere you go." Oh yes Virginia, happy days have come back. Wall Street's up, Europe's up, Asia and Australia are up and up. Scan through the headlines and you get the impression that though all remains ...

Flight to quality boosts PIMCO inflows

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2011
... remain the core allocation of fixed income portfolios but there has also been increasing interest in corporate debt and high yield solutions for the satellite portion of portfolios as an alternative to equities." While demand spiked following periods ...

Fidelity to offer fixed income products to Australian market

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 13 OCT 2011
... interest in, in the future," Carle told Fidelity's annual investment forum. "Fidelity is the world's leading manager of high yield assets with dedicated products in the US, Europe and Asia, so it is definitely a significant part of Fidelity's asset base ...

Instos urged to grab sovereign debt chance

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2011
... opportunity that Britton was discussing with Australian clients while visiting from the UK last week was better managing high yield exposure using hedge fund techniques. "We're talking about getting a manager that can rotate between different asset classes ...