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GAM hires from BlackRock

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2021
The Swiss manager is investing in its local business, adding to its product offering and hiring a senior manager from BlackRock. Close to three years since opening its Australian office, GAM Investments is growing the Sydney-based team with the addition ...

Magellan launches FuturePay

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2021
Magellan has launched its much-anticipated retirement income product today with a pay cheque replacement, having first flagged the idea back in 2017. FuturePay is an actively managed fund available on Chi-X from Wednesday and in an unlisted vehicle ...

Investment Leadership Awards finalists named

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 17 MAY 2021
... Investment Management - Plato Australian Shares Income Fund Vanguard Investments Australia - Vanguard Australian Shares High Yield ETF Australian Equities - Small Cap Aberdeen Standard Investments Australia - Aberdeen Stand. Aust. Small Co. Fund Macquarie ...

Loomis Sayles wins super fund mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAY 2021
... student loans, packaged up. Loomis Sayles offers four strategies in mortgage and structured finance: core securitised, high yield securitised credit, investment grade securitised credit and pure agency mortgage-backed securities. Statewide chief investment ...

Chief economist update: Be afraid of inflation expectations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAY 2021
... previous inflation breakouts. US inflation expectations - measured as the differential between nominal bond yields and the yield on Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS) have rising. They're now at levels higher than the Fed's first ...

Chief economist update: Inflation scare

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAY 2021
... dropped overnight - the Dow by 1.99; the S&P 500 by 2.1%; the Nasdaq composite by 2.7%; and the Russell 2000 by 3.3%. The yield on 10-year US bonds increased to 1.70% from 1.62% the day before. The VIX index - the fear gauge - soared by 26.3% to a reading ...

Chief economist update: Japan's elusive virtuous cycle

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2021
... Still, to this day inflation - headline and core - has gone nowhere near the BOJ's 2% target despite introducing QQE with Yield Curve Control and Negative Interest Rates in 2016. But I digress. While the BOJ upgraded its GDP growth forecasts in its ...

Chief economist update: A date with the RBA in July

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAY 2021
... expected, the RBA left monetary policy settings unchanged - "including the targets of 10 basis points for the cash rate and the yield on the 3-year Australian government bond, as well as the parameters of the Term Funding Facility and the government ...

Chief economist update: The Fed and Australia

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2021
Just when we thought Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell has tapered sooner-than-later taper expectations, along comes Robert Steven Kaplan -- president and chief executive of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. While the US Federal Reserve was waxing ...

BetaShares launches hybrids ETF

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 27 APR 2021
... bank's maximum weight in the index to 30%. It had 16 constituents as at April 22. "As at 31 March 2021, the gross running yield (i.e. including franking credits) of the index BHYB aims to track was around 3.5% p.a., and the gross yield-to-call was around ...