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Junk by name, junk by nature?

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... good number of these bonds can turn sour. "While investment-grade issuers typically are able to withstand considerably more macro and event-driven stress than their speculative-grade counterparts, the COVID-19 pandemic and oil price shocks have resulted ...

Chief economist update: No cheers as RBA hits inflation target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
Mission accomplished! This would have been the Reserve Bank of Australia's (RBA) self-congratulatory exclamation after the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reported that annual headline CPI inflation accelerated to 2.2% in the March quarter ...

Gargantuan stimulus needed to survive economic disaster

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2020
Economic experts are calling on the government to commit to "gargantuan" fiscal stimulus measures, amounting to at least 15-20% of Australia's GDP per year for the next two to three years. Anything less, they argue, will run the risk of a debt-default ...

Frontier Advisors makes key appointments

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... quantitative strategist and portfolio manager for insurance linked securities. Bulfin had a 10 year career at Goldman Sachs as a macro trader and in treasury management before moving to Singapore to work as a macro trader for Barcap. Simone Gavin will ...

A case for flexible asset allocation: First Sentier

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
... multi-asset fund had also concentrated its exposure within developed markets over their emerging counterparts. "Within that macro view, at the time of writing we have preferences for Canadian, Swiss and Indian equities, while we have a view to be underweight ...

Melbourne hedge fund quietly folds

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2020
A Melbourne fund manager started by former founders of RBS Morgan's ultra-high-net-worth division and backed by a family office is currently in the process of winding up. Qato Capital had three funds, in market neutral, long/short fund, and active share ...

Boutique manager taps former Challenger executive

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2020
... alternatives investment manager has added a new chief risk officer, hiring from Challenger. Sydney-based manager Darling Macro has appointed Mark Swan as its new chief risk officer. Swan joins the manager from Challenger, having served as senior risk ...

Adequacy argument headlines online CMSF

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2020
A debate over the adequacy of the superannuation guarantee has kicked off the Conference of Major Superannuation Funds, which is now being delivered online. Having been called off like many other events thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Australian ...

Increased customers, incoming crypto: Raiz

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2020
... product. In the first three months of 2020, Raiz saw an increase of 3741 customers, despite global market volatility and macro uncertainty. It comes at the platform readies itself to release what it says is the world's first retail fund with Bitcoin ...

A decade in the dust

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... recession far worse than the Global Financial Crisis. That's according to State Street Global Advisors head of global macro policy research Amlan Roy, who argues the International Monetary Fund's prediction of global growth falling to -3% in ...