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Kapstream co-founder announces career break

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAY 2021
... related funds. Andrew Mulliner, head of global aggregate, continues to serve in this role and oversee the multi-sector global bond portfolio strategies. Cielinski said: "We thank Nick for his contribution to Janus Henderson, his unwavering commitment ...

Chief economist update: Inflation scare

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAY 2021
... later-than-sooner tightening. This is because persistent losses in the equity markets would erode the "wealth effect", the rise in bond yields would make credit more expensive and the higher US dollar would reduce America's export competitiveness ...

Chief economist update: Did the BOE just announce taper?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2021
... Committee meeting ending on 5 May 2021" document is the paragraph: "The existing programme of £150 billion of UK government bond purchases had started in January and its completion was expected by around the end of 2021. As envisaged since the announcement ...

Generation Life awards tech mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAY 2021
... will provide an investment administration solution for its new investment-linked lifetime annuity and existing investment bond business. The software, InvestPro, provides unit pricing, cash allocation and rebalancing, tax accruals, investment accounting ...

Chief economist update: A date with the RBA in July

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAY 2021
... unchanged - "including the targets of 10 basis points for the cash rate and the yield on the 3-year Australian government bond, as well as the parameters of the Term Funding Facility and the government bond purchase program". As expected, it lifted Australia's ...

Chief economist update: The Fed and Australia

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2021
... compete for the higher interest rates offered in the United States. As we've witnessed over the past few months, Australian bond yields (and those of other major economies) have risen in line with the ascent with their US counterparts. This bad news ...

TCorp hires CBA capital markets executive

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 3 MAY 2021
The New South Wales Treasury Corporation has appointed a long-serving Commonwealth Bank executive to the role of head of funding and balance sheet. Rob Kenna leads the team primarily responsible for raising debt in the form of bonds and managing the ...

Evergreen partners with Generation Life

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 3 MAY 2021
... implemented via Generation Life's tax-effective structure. The Evergreen Responsible Growth Model is a tax-effective investment bond that will target a return of 3.5% above the cash rate per year, after fees and costs. Evergreen said it is using ...

Chief economist update: Not yet time to make a change

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2021
... two days of deliberation, the Committee decided to maintain the status quo -- federal funds rate at 0-0.25% increase its bond purchases by at least US$80 billion a month and agency mortgage-backed securities by around US$40 billion monthly. "...I know ...

BetaShares launches hybrids ETF

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 27 APR 2021
... a 6.0% forecast gross dividend yield for Australian bank shares and a 1.1% p.a. yield on Australia's benchmark fixed-rate bond index," BetaShares said in a statement. BHYB follows Active Australian Hybrids Fund (managed fund) (ASX: HBRD), which recently ...