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SSgA launches two fixed income ETFs

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 30 JUL 2012
... to the Australian bond market. The new ETFs are the State Street Global Advisors' (SSgA) SPDR S&P(R)/ASX Australian Bond Fund and the SPDR S&P/ASX Australian Government Bond Fund. "These new ETFs aim to give retail investors exposure to markets which ...

PIMCO urges SMSFs to get active

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2011
PIMCO's Australian bond fund has outperformed Australian shares over the past ten years and actively managed income funds are being tipped to add more value still. Lonsec's 2011 income funds sector review found that the shift towards index funds and ...

Zenith rates seven funds highly recommended

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 16 DEC 2010
... candidates for client model portfolios. The funds that achieved highly recommended status include Tyndall Australian Bond Fund, Macquarie Income Opportunities Fund, Goldman Sachs JBWere Core Plus Australian Fixed Interest Fund and Advance International ...

Lonsec names income sector's best

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAY 2010
... Traditional Income Sector Review resulted in five funds receiving a 'highly recommended' rating, which include UBS Australian Bond fund, Vanguard Australian Fixed Interest fund and the EQT PIMCO Global Bond fund. The Schroder Fixed Income fund W Class ...

UBS GAM replaces Aussie bond manager

S&P RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAY 2010
... Global Asset Management (Australia) has appointed Tim van Klaveren as senior portfolio manager of the UBS Australian Bond fund. Van Klaveren replaces Adam Bowe who left the firm in March. He joins the team after working for the Sydney UBS team before ...

Schroders appoints UBS director

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2010
... providing interest rate strategy recommendations and sector allocations for both UBS global bond funds and their Australian bond fund and tactical asset allocation recommendations for their diversified fund. Argyrou worked with UBS for 8 years. Schroders' ...

Investing on thin ice

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2010
... their fixed income portfolios have been set up to take advantage of further interest rate rises. The Tyndall Australian Bond Fund is ranked number one out of 36 funds in the Australian Fixed Interest category over three years and five years, according ...

AMP Cap appoints Japan MD

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2009
AMP Capital Investors has appointed Toshiaki Yamashita as managing director and representative director in Japan after he joined the firm in July in a similar role. Yamashita previously worked at AMP Capital in Japan as acting managing director. He ...

Aberdeen closes Aussie bond fund

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2009
Aberdeen has closed its Aberdeen Australian Bond Fund, following the manager's integration with Credit Suisse. The fund had $148 million at the end of October, according to the product's factsheet. This means Aberdeen will only have one Australian fixed-interest ...

Bond index returns beat active managers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2009
Financial planners should rethink how they invest in Australian bonds after research found active managers underperformed the benchmark more than 94 per cent of the time over three and five years. The Vanguard study, which drew research from Standard ...