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MSC Group launches Singaporean fund service

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUN 2022
... classes, comprising asset-specific and pooled asset retail and wholesale funds, limited partnerships, fintech and corporate debt. Fletcher added he expected the move would benefit capital managers in Singapore. "We are so excited to join the financial ...

AMP offloads remainder of Collimate Capital

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2022
... finalises its capital and liquidity requirements, it is the board's intention to pay down a portion of its outstanding corporate debt and to return to shareholders the majority of the net proceeds from the two sales and the sales of the infrastructure ...

Vanguard suspends trading in Russian securities

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2022
... decisions for the foreseeable future". As such, it will make no new investments in Russia or Belarus sovereign or corporate debt, or equities. At the time, Franklin Templeton had less than 0.5% of assets under management at a firm level in Russia and ...

Invesco inks ESG plan

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2020
... negative. In this scenario, equity valuations are worse affected than debt valuations and would drop around 4%. Corporate debt valuations would be less negatively impacted as they are more short-term and secure. Invesco's head of ESG climate strategies ...

Janus Henderson lists new active ETF

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2020
... It had 47% of the portfolio allocated to corporate senior debt, followed by semi government (18%); subordinated corporate debt (9%), government bonds (5%). The rest was split across asset-backed securities, cash and derivatives, global high yield, hybrids ...

Opportunities in EM debt rebound: Eaton Vance

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2020
... external sovereign debt pushed 12.3% higher thanks to the compression of sovereign spreads over US Treasurys. The EM corporate debt index also gained 11.15% on the strength of corporate and sovereign spread compression. "The positive tone was reinforced ...

Chief economist update: BOJ takes breather on stimulus sprint

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2020
... other risky assets purchases to ¥12 trillion from ¥6 trillion; introduced a new operation providing loans against corporate debt; and, raised the upper limit to purchase CP and corporate bonds by ¥2 trillion in total to ¥3.2 trillion and ¥4.2 trillion ...

Fixed income investors get new ESG rating

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2020
... The firm said ESG conversations had become important to investors, with 82% of its meetings with sovereign and corporate debt issuers coring ESG topics last year, a 54% increase from 2018. Insight senior ESG analyst Joshua Kendall said the firm's analysts ...

Centuria launches takeover bid

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2020
... Augusta board and management team took decisive action to minimize the impact of COVID-19 by significantly reducing corporate debt and releasing surplus cash to aid growth in the core business," McBain said. "Accordingly, its NZ platform is now well ...

Investors back corporate bonds as COVID-19 winner

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
... compared to term deposits and "high interest" bank accounts, looks pretty good, Kase said. He also prefers Australian corporate debt over offshore debt. "In Australia, corporate bonds are higher quality and also shorter tenure; the companies don't borrow ...