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Global X debuts US corporate bond ETF

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2023
... Investment Grade Corporate Hedged to AUD Index. The ETF provides investors with access to US investment grade investment bonds, with maturities of at least three years, and a minimum issuance of $750 million per bond and $2 billion per issuer. Global ...

Investment bonds offer refuge amid super changes

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAR 2023
As the government plans to tighten rules around high superannuation balances, investment bonds offer a secure, tax-efficient alternative. The government has proposed doubling the concessional tax rate for super balances over $3 million from 15% to 30%. ...

New adviser, intermediary solutions lead at Russell

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 13 JAN 2022
... Gowings, Centrepoint Alliance and AMP. Such roles included distribution and marketing lead, general manager of investment bonds and leading wholesale funds management efforts. Last year, the fund manager won a $285 million mandate split across three ...

Platinum launches investment bond

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2021
... are set at 1.35% per year, of which 30bps is administration fees and 1.05% is the investment management fees. Investment bonds are tax-paid structures, where the bond issuer pays the 30% company tax rate to the ATO, thereby freeing the bond holder of ...

Generation Life awards tech mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAY 2021
Generation Life has awarded technology firm FRS a mandate to provide pricing and reporting for its investment bonds. Financial Risk Solutions (FRS) will provide an investment administration solution for its new investment-linked lifetime annuity and ...

Investment bonds a good alternative to Wills: GDG

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAR 2021
Investment bonds are the second-most effective investment solution after superannuation, and a good alternative to Wills, according to Generation Life senior distribution manager Laura Salsbury. Speaking at Financial Standard 's first Technical ...

OneVue scores admin mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2020
... a five-year outsourced managed fund administration agreement with OneVue and will move its property funds and investment bonds to the latter's services. The agreement is subject to satisfying APRA's review during the required notification period, OneVue ...

Centuria Life launches new bond offering

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2019
Centuria Life is launching a new suite of products, anticipating a resurgent popularity in investment bonds. Centuria LifeGoals will comprise 22 professionally managed fund options, including sector, diversified and index funds. Asset classes covered ...

Australian Unity's wealth business grows

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2018
... business designed to streamline operations and reduce capital usage, as well as strong growth in property and investment bonds segments," the report said. The independent and assisted living business generated $423 million in total revenue, down from ...

Centuria Life announces promotion

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2018
... for, and use of, bonds as a means of creating, transferring, and protecting wealth. Growth potential for the investment bonds market is solid, due in part to favourable tailwinds from market and policy changes such as the recent changes and limitations ...