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Northern Trust touts new ESG tool to instos

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... exposures in the investment portfolio. Northern Trust is starting with listed asset classes including equities and corporate bonds (through a partnership with IdealRatings) but will over time expand to other asset classes. "In future, we will look at ...

Gargantuan stimulus needed to survive economic disaster

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2020
... take advantage of historically low interest rate levels, they said, with the Commonwealth government able to issue 10 year bonds at an annual cash rate well below 1%. "This means that even $1 trillion of extra spending (more than one half of Australia's ...

Pandemic puts pressure on ETF spreads

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2020
... classes' spreads widened, as price discovery became increasingly more difficult. In fixed interest sectors, such as corporate bonds and high-yield bonds, the market leaders had to take on risk to maintain buy-sell spreads as prices gapped, pushing spreads ...

BNY Mellon IM boutique heads for ASX mFunds

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... in a first for BNY Mellon's boutique partners. The Insight Diversified Inflation Plus Fund invests across equities, bonds, real assets and total return strategies, targeting long-term returns of 5% p.a. above inflation over a rolling five-year period. ...

BlackRock turns optimistic on credit

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
Central bank action including buying corporate bonds combined with cheapened valuation has led BlackRock Investment Institute to upgrade credit to a modest overweight. BlackRock's latest six to 12 month tactical views on major global asset classes (in ...

Boutique manager taps former Challenger executive

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2020
... Darling Macro Fund, which aims to "dynamically allocate long and short exposure across many liquid markets" within equities, bonds, commodities and currencies.

Mayfair 101 pushes on

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
... residential, commercial or rural land in the development. The advertisement said all investors in Mayfair Australian Property Bonds will also receive three nights of complementary accommodation for four people at a Mayfair 101 owned holiday home. Wholesale ...

Tail-risk hedging pays off for super fund

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... affected by the change in prices of all asset classes, but owing to the volume invested and the volatility, equities and bonds are the biggest drivers behind changes; bonds have a higher weight in asset allocation, but equities tend to be more volati ...

Will COVID-19 kill the balanced option?

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020
... cash and fixed income, Geffin said, and 25% defensive disclosed. He also pointed to Rest's core option with 13% in cash and bonds and 35.50% defensive disclosed. According to Geffin, it's these kind of allocations that have people worried during the ...

BlackRock bullish on China

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020
... bond market presenting good opportunities. "We see several reasons for global investors to grow their ownership of Chinese bonds," they said. "Macroeconomic fundaments in China are favourable relative to other regions, due in part to the containment ...