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BlackRock opens global fixed income fund to local investors

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2014
BlackRock has opened its Fixed Income Global Opportunities Fund (FIGO) to Australian investors. FIGO is a flexible global multi-sector fixed income strategy that seeks to achieve a positive total return. While the fund is not tied to a benchmark, it ...

Average September on average

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2014
... is PIMCO would haemorrhage investors and would need to liquidate. An ever so slightly longer term look at 10-year US bond yield shows that while it's up to 2.53% from September's opening yield of 2.34%, it remains more than 50 bps lower than the 3.04% ...

"Considerable time", is it a-changin'?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2014
What's in a word? Two words to be precise. Speculation that the Fed would (or would not) change these two words when it delivers its monetary policy statement on Wednesday (NY time) has focussed the minds of many an investor lately and... wet the pants ...

Super Mario to the rescue (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014
Financial markets didn't get the kitchen sink they were hoping for but the fridge - along with the promise that the kitchen sink would come later - was good enough. With the eurozone economy in a coma - second quarter real GDP growth was zero - and ...

No drama at the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2014
The nine distinguished men and women that comprise the Board of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) meets today to deliberate on monetary policy settings apropos (wooh-hoo, big word) for Australia given current domestic and international dynamics. Pardon ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2014
The Australian market looks set to open lower, after falls in most commodity prices and a fairly flat finish for Wall Street stocks. At 0654 AEST on Thursday, the September share price index futures contract was down 18 points at 5,611. Locally, earning ...

IOOF launches defensive equity portfolio

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2014
The IOOF MultiMix investment team has launched a defensive equity portfolio as a response to the decline in cash and bond yields. "The decline in cash and bond yields has meant that income needs to be sought elsewhere," IOOF portfolio manager of Australian ...

A sign from the holy spirit?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2014
id the holy spirit just give us a sign? Nah Virgina, I'm speak not of the one-third of the 'Holy Trinity' that is central to the Christian faith but the bank named after it in Portugal - Banco Espiritu Santo. Trading in scripts and bonds issued by Portugal's ...

Here we go again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2014
Nah, it couldn't be! Nope, Virginia, like I have typed on this space before the US economy has not yet reached sustainable velocity and therefore those bring forward of expectations with regards to the Fed's first interest rate hike are merely that ...

US bond yields zipped by ZIRP?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2014
A trading day short of six months into 2014 and yields on 10-year US government benchmark bonds have dropped to 2.54% -- exactly 50 basis points below the 3.04% they were fetching at the birth of 2014. What's interesting Virginia, is that this is happening ...