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Chief economist update: Another five minutes of sunshine?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2018
... secure and incomes are growing. Conversely, fixed interest investors generally consider economic expansion as negative for bonds because it can indicate inflation may be going up which might force interest rates to increase. When interest rates go up ...

BetaShares launches fixed-rate corporate bond ETF

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2018
... Australia's fourth largest exchange traded product manager has listed a new ETF that will invest in up to 35 fixed-rate corporate bonds. BetaShares has launched CRED, an ETF that will invest in investment grade securities denominated in Aussie dollars ...

Aussie fixed income house partners with Israeli firm

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2018
... with FIIG's investment management platform SimCorp Dimension. "Demand for fixed income, and in particular corporate bonds, is on the rise with more and more investors realising the benefits of corporate bonds as part of a diversified portfolio," ...

Global fixed income manager mulls active bond ETFs

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2018
... market for SMSFs, proposing actively managed bond ETFs as a potential solution. Commenting on how SMSFs currently allocate bonds within their portfolios, Western Asset head of investment management Anthony Kirkham said SMSFs were finding the fixed income ...

Robeco wins two mandates worth $500m

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2018
... credits strategy. The strategy is unconstrained and invests across the corporate bond market, including investment grade bonds in developed markets, high-yield and emerging market debt. "As we continue to broaden out our investment offerings to the Australian ...

Chief economist update: Italy and Spain an emerging ECB problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2018
... Italy and Spain. Italy's FTSE MIB index has dropped by 8.7% from the 2018 high set on May 7 and the yield on it 10-year bonds jumped to 2.53% - the highest level since 2014 - on concerns over the formation (or not) of a eurosceptic and populist coalition ...

Better than bonds: A new approach to lifecycle investment

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2018
... savings by about 30%, if they make a "mid-step" switch to defensive equities instead of gradually increasing allocations to bonds, according to new analysis from Parametric. Parametric's latest research is pitching the defensive equities (DE) option ...

CFS partners to create ESG fixed income fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2018
... ESG fund. Dimensional already ran an existing sustainability strategy, but the fund was the manager's first to invest in bonds as opposed to equities.

Corporate bond demand strengthens: Report

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2018
... stream. This is according to the joint study conducted by FIIG Securities and Deloitte Access Economics, which shows corporate bonds outperformed the local (4.3%) and global (5.5%) share markets at an average gross return of 6.1% in the 10 years to 2016. ...

Baby boomers unprepared for wealth transfer: Australian Unity

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018
... transfer of wealth from one generation to the next." Glinac added that baby boomers should consider using structures such as bonds, which safeguard wealth to ensure it gets passed to the next generation effectively. "Bonds sit outside of the deceased's ...