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Will Australia escape an EM bond crisis?

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2013
The high-yield emerging market (EM) bond market may be a bubble waiting to burst, but Australian bonds can escape this fate, according Fred Goodwin, macro strategist at State Street Global Markets. Since 2008, the high yields offered by EM bonds have ...

Sinking emerging markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUN 2013
We waited...and waited...and waited. All of last week we waited to get a better handle on whether it's gonna be taper on or taper off, after the latest update on the US labour market. But nah. While Wall Street rallied following the release of the US ...

Volatile safe-haven bonds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2013
... high yield plays into cyclical and growth-orientated scripts. Easy! Then again, perhaps not. Not according to the bond market, that is. The yield on 10-year Treasuries dropped by 0.05 percentage point to 2.12% last night - when talks of scaling back ...

Investment in alternative assets on the rise globally

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2013
... with infrastructure a close second. Commodities were least appealing, attracting 18% of respondents. Meanwhile, the bond market is keeping its hold on investors, particularly in Europe. Only 9% of European respondents planned to move out of cash or fixed ...

Super funds need low volatility shares for pension portfolios

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2013
... investment horizons are shorter and capital stability becomes an important consideration." The collapse of yields in the bond market as a result of global stimulus measures has placed greater emphasis on the income properties of dividend paying stocks ...

London firm Stratton enters Australian market

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2013
London-based investment manager Stratton Street's New Capital Wealthy Nations Bond Fund will available for wholesale and institutional investors for the first time in Australia, with Equity Trustees acting as the responsible entity. The fund focuses ...

Exchange-traded government bonds to trade on ASX

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2013
... AOFM has also prepared concise disclosure documentation for retail investors. "The benefits of a retail government bond market are significant, allowing retail investors to diversify their savings and providing an important foundation for the development ...

Investors need income rethink after RBA rate cut

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2013
... Australian dollar and concerns over the performance of the economy. "In the short-term the cut is positive for the bond market but it does raise concerns about investors' income seeking strategies in the long-term," Miller said. "We could see some more ...

Value in EM debt and bank loans for bond investors

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2013
Fixed income investors can still find pockets of value in the bank loan and emerging market debt markets, according to Invesco's head of fixed income in London, Greg Freer. The compression of global yields in the wake of the global financial crisis ...

Bear market not a concern for bond holders: Vanguard

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAY 2013
... officer Greg Davis said. "Bond markets operate differently to equity markets and this paper confirms that in reality a bond market bubble in the same context as we might define an equity market bubble is not possible," he said. "The key considerations ...