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IFM Investors ready to ramp up corporate lending

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020
... Royal Adelaide Hospital. Its returns in lending to companies range from BBSW plus 250 to 400 bps for large caps, investment grade to BBSW plus 450 to 800/900 bps in sub-investment grade lending with a three to five-year tenor. Wanigasekera said it has ...

Sentiment weakens as macro threats loom

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
... come down, notwithstanding some defaults that can come through," he said. Central banks have so far propped up investment grade credit, securitised assets and equity markets - however this has been driven largely by healthcare, and technology, he said. ...

Opportunities exist in high yield: Eaton Vance

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2020
... investment manager seeing opportunity in European high yield markets. Companies that have been downgraded from investment grade; fallen angles, were also an opportune area for high-yield investors, it argued. "We've seen a slew of downgrades in the US ...

Investors back corporate bonds as COVID-19 winner

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
... environment, corporate bonds will still provide investors with the income they so desperately need, he said. "Investment grade corporate bonds are probably the pick of the bunch right now, as companies become focused on deleveraging (or lowering their ...

Junk by name, junk by nature?

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... These bonds attract credit ratings by houses such as Moody's or S&P of BBB- and lower, meaning they are sub-investment grade. This lower credit rating usually relates to higher debt levels (like banks), higher operational costs (like airlines) or ...

A case for flexible asset allocation: First Sentier

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
Investment managers with fixed multi-asset allocations may have been better served by a flexible approach during the COVID-19 crisis. That's according to First Sentier Investors, who argue a flexible, dynamic multi-asset approach to investing can ...

Opportunities in fixed interest during crisis

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2020
... pockets of opportunity opening up - particularly some of the higher quality companies." On the global scale, investment grade credit is down on average about 5%, hybrids are down 15%, while the high yield market and loans are down 15-20%, Sivapalan said. ...

Fixed income liquidity squeeze bites

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
... discount] so you can see exactly what's going on," Chesler says. Another ETF issuer BetaShares, whose Australian Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF ended March 23 trading with a discount of above 3% thinks the same. "What we are seeing right now ...

Challenger shuffles life portfolio asset allocations

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2020
Challenger Life has tilted its investment portfolio away from equities and sub-investment grade fixed income and towards more liquid assets, as COVID-19 sparks volatility in most asset classes. Challenger Life has slashed equity holdings from 13% of ...

Diversification pays off for some, but not all: bfinance

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2020
... as planned for many, a very substantial minority have been disappointed in the results so far in areas such as investment grade credit, hedge funds and multi-asset. "We expect considerable scrutiny of manager selection, strategy selection and asset allocation ...