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US shares dominating other asset classes

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 4 SEP 2017
... would now be worth $146,430, assuming no acquisition costs or taxes and all income was reinvested. By contrast, Australian bonds would have delivered 8.5% per annum, or $115,187; Australian shares would have returned 8.4%, or $113,405; listed property ...

First XTB 'Floater' model portfolio launched

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 7 AUG 2017
... potential to protect against rising rates. It also offers investors a simple way to access a diversified basket of Australian bonds with investment-grade credit rating."

Property overpowers asset class returns

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUL 2017
... Russell Investments and the ASX. Global bonds (hedged) generated gross returns of 7.4% per annum, followed by Australian bonds at 6.1%. Australian equities meanwhile, fell further away from the top four performing asset classes, returning just 4.3% per ...

Lonsec rates Altius bond funds

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 18 OCT 2016
... production or sale of thermal coal. In its review of the funds, Lonsec said: "The funds seek to shift between cash and Australian bonds at various times during the cycle in an effort to protect capital. This product might be suited to investors who would ...

Advisers leading ETF investment charge

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2016
... managers looking to capture specific exposures through ETFs, which could be anything from emerging markets shares to Australian bonds, depending on their particular view," Mr Sherman said. "Active managers often use ETFs as a way of taking a broad market ...

Nikko handed Japanese fixed income mandate

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2016
... mobilise their savings into investments other than Japanese government bonds. In this environment, higher yielding Australian bonds offer an attractive alternative, Nikko AM said. "This win demonstrates how Nikko AM is taking full advantage of its global ...

Long term super fund returns approach record levels

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015
... unhedged allocations in this area. Direct property delivered +10%, Australian equities and international bonds +6%, Australian bonds +5% and cash +2%. Member accounts that had low exposure to growth assets, such as SMSFs and retirees, may thus have experienced ...

Rising bond yields a blip

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2015
... substantially by falls in high-yielding bank shares, may have pushed too far as well in our view, especially if Australian bonds start to rally again." Roberts said the case for Australian bonds to begin rallying again is perhaps strongest of all. This ...

Overseas investors flocking to Australian bonds

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2015
BlackRock is seeing massive flows from Japanese clients into Aussie dollar bond funds as a result of quantitative easing in the Asian country. Investment strategist and head of fixed income, Steve Miller, told a briefing recently the flows in to Aussie ...

Quo vadis dollar-A?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014
... US$0.88 next month, then to US$0.90 by the middle of next year and then US$0.92 by end-2015. Westpac's rationale - Australian bonds yield premium over the US won't narrow because of investor demand for our AAA rating -- is as rational as Mr. Boyton's ...