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Chalmers advocates for Aussie instos on 'Big Beautiful Bill'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUN 2025
... comes to US President Donald Trump's 'Big Beautiful Bill'. Chalmers said he had a "very productive" conversation with US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, where they discussed a range of issues facing Australia, including tariffs and Trump's tax bill. ...

Sydney to host global superannuation summit

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2025
... Superannuation Investment Summit, hosted by US ambassador Kevin Rudd in Washington DC and New York, featured leaders like US treasury secretary Scott Bessent and Australian treasurer Jim Chalmers. The Summit showcased Australia's largest super funds ...

Chalmers looks to trade super pool for minerals with US

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2025
... proposition that Australia's super sector has deep pockets when it comes to investing in the US was naturally welcomed by US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. Bessent said the super model and its scale was "fantastic, especially considering Australia ...

BlackRock loses senior executive touted as Fink's successor

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2025
... financial institutions. Before BlackRock, Wiedman was a senior advisor to the under secretary for domestic finance at the US Treasury. Wiedman's departure comes following the exit of Salim Ramji - another former potential successor - who took over as ...

Janus Henderson to manage new tokenised treasury fund

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 16 SEP 2024
... sub-adviser to the LTF, which will be issued on Centrifuge's public blockchain, giving investors direct access to short-term US Treasury bills. It will manage the fund's daily operations and portfolio through its subsidiary Tabula, which was acquired ...

BlackRock launches new bond ETF

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2024
BlackRock Australia has announced it will launch the iShares 20+ year US Treasury Bond ETF (ASX: ULTB) with a management fee of 0.15%. The addition of the ETF extends the local iShares fixed income range, which it said offers Australian advisers and ...

T. Rowe Price launches bond fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2024
... that fiscal supply will continue to keep long-end yields elevated. Broadly, we maintained our steepening bias on the US Treasury curve. Within the eurozone, we trimmed our overall underweight duration bias in the second half of the month as we pivoted ...

Betashares launches 'industry first' bond funds

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2023
... bond prices, with the inverse risk of increases losses during price rises. Betashares also introduced a Geared Long US Treasury Bond Fund - Currency Hedged (ASX: GGFD), seeking to generate gains from an increase in 10-year US Treasury prices, while also ...

Former Schroders executive enters VC space

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2023
... Goldman Sachs Asset Management, and Tore Myrholt, former EMEA chair of McKinsey. The advisory board includes: Former US Treasury secretary Larry Summers, former co-manager of the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust at Baillie Gifford James Anderson, Schroders' ...

Global X slashes ETF fees

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2023
... reducing management fees on two of its fixed income ETFs, the Global X USD High Yield Bond ETF (USHY) and the Global X US Treasury Bond ETF (USTB). USHY is currently priced at 0.40% and UTSB is currently 0.20% per year but will be reduced to 0.30% and ...