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Melbourne boutique adds to team

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2020
... boutique's initial strategy has focused on high-grade sovereign bonds backed by governments with a credit rating of AA or AAA in Australian dollars. In March last year, it opened a sophisticated/wholesale investor-only strategy that invests in global ...

Chief economist update: Is the A$ becoming a safe-haven currency?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 OCT 2019
... factors determining exchange rate values. Numero uno is that Australia's credit rating is better than America's - AAA vs. AA. That is, although both are expected to be able to repay debt obligations, Australia can repay them better. This is underscored ...

Chief economist update: Beam us up Scotty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2019
... cost of capital - hurdle rate - of 10% even after funding costs have fallen sharply over the past few years. Australia's AAA corporate bond yields have fallen to around 1.5% from about 4% five years ago and over 6% 10-years before. Even yields on ...

Chief economist update: When monetary and fiscal policies don't meet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2019
... what it could. It's time for the government to do the fiscally-responsible thing - engage in deficit spending. With its AAA-rating and interest rates at record lows, the government needs to heed its own advice to businesses and consumers. Borrow ...

Sydney portfolio manager on best female fundies list

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUL 2019
... funds, across all asset classes and sectors, that an individual has run over that time period in order to determine a Citywire AAA, AA, A or + rating each month for a fund manager, on a three-year rolling basis. "The individual fund manager's monthly ...

Industry funds dominate AAA quality list

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2019
One-in-four superannuation products have achieved Rainmaker's AAA quality benchmarks this year, the majority of which are provided by not-for-profit funds. Following an in-depth assessment of 750 superannuation products, only 174 or 23.2% received ...

Melbourne boutique hires portfolio manager

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2019
... boutique's initial strategy has focused on high-grade sovereign bonds backed by governments with a credit rating of AA or AAA in Australian dollars. The allocations are tilted towards Australian government bonds, state bonds (where it doesn't ...

State government awards super fund mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2019
... 2014. AustralianSuper has been managing these products since 31 January 2015. AustralianSuper and Statewide are SelectingSuper AAA-rated funds.

UniSuper awards fixed income mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2019
... boutique's initial strategy has focused on high-grade sovereign bonds backed by governments with a credit rating of AA or AAA in Australian dollars. The allocations are tilted towards Australian government bonds, state bonds (where it doesn't ...

AustralianSuper awards $500m mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2018
... to 30 June figures. The boutique invests in high-grade sovereign bonds backed by governments with a credit rating of AA or AAA in Australian dollars. It was founded in 2014 by former JP Morgan bonds salesman Angus Coote and former Bank of America Merrill ...