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Chief economist update: The cure for Italy's tourism problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2020
... late-2018 to early-2019 when 10-year Italian bond yields soared to as high as 3.65% - compared with the 0.47% rate on German bonds - as financial markets became concerned over the country's ability to pay down its debts. This is because the country's ...

Chief economist update: The crash we have to have

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2020
... higher yields, moral hazard and lower rates for longer have reduced risks anyway. One such high risk investment is junk bonds. It offers relatively higher yield to the investor and relatively lower cost for the issuer. Financial Times notes that energy ...

Equities not that expensive: Hamish Douglass

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2020
... changed. "We have now got cash rates in Australia below 1%, we actually have our 10-year bond yields below 1%. US 10-year bonds are at 50 year lows, I think they are actually at historic lows," he said. "Believe it or not, Greek bonds -the country that ...

UNSW to ditch fossil fuels

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2020
... University said it will divest from direct ownership and any commingled funds that include public equities and corporate bonds of companies whose primary business is the ownership and exploitation of fossil fuels reserves by 2025. UNSW president and ...

TCorp launches new bond

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2020
... Sustainability Bond, which had a coupon rate of 1.2% and vested in March 2025. Currently, TCorp only has two other fixed interest bonds that mature post-2033, however, there are now six fixed-interest bonds that mature in a decade or more's time. ...

Remain liquid, defensive and patient: Schroders

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2020
... concern these things are in the future," he said. Kase said another trend that has been seen in 2020 is the divergence between bonds and equities, with both sectors pointing to a different outlook. "Equities are showing a global economy growing, the ...

Janus Henderson to launch active ETF

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2020
... bank and corporation debt, mortgage and other asset backed securities, and government, semi-government and supranational bonds. It may also allocate to high-yielding securities. It will invest in underlying funds from Janus Henderson Investors, including ...

Coronavirus to infect Q2: Capital Group

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020
... off "balance sheet" that the governments establish; [from] local government investment vehicles, borrowing from banks and bonds," Green said. However, Green said that when visiting these infrastructure projects Capital Group found that most of them were ...

Pension assets climb towards $50 trillion

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2020
... private markets and other alternatives, compared to 23% in 2019. This shift comes largely at the expense of equities and bonds, down 16% and 1% respectively, in the period. The average P7 asset allocation is now equities 45%, bonds 29%, alternatives ...

Not the time for long-term decisions: Baur

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2020
... outperformance is "probably about finished". "For bond investors, we'd stick to two to four year high quality corporate bonds," Baur said. Looking ahead, Baur said it is "quite possible" that 2021 could present a vastly different investment environment. ...