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PIMCO to launch first Australian listed trust

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 NOV 2019
... closed-end listed investment trust to the Australian market, with the aim to meet Australian investors' growing demand for yield and income. PIMCO said the trust will look to leverage its strength in global income and credit investing, to provide ...

Super funds could boost returns by 59bps: Report

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 NOV 2019
... research draws on concerns amongst superannuation funds about how to meet investment objectives when markets are volatile, the yield on "safe" assets is at historic lows, investment alpha is scarce and most forecasters are "bears not bulls". "Parametric's ...

International investors chase Australian real assets

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 11 NOV 2019
... and offers investors the chance to participate in some of the world's leading infrastructure projects. "As the hunt for yield continues and investors search for reliable returns, we believe Australian real assets present long-term, innovative and exciting ...

Chief economist update: Santa Claus is coming to town

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 NOV 2019
... centred on the ill-effects of the trade war and underscored by fears of a looming US recession predicted by the inverted yield curve. The only explanation being that bad news is good news. The worse the global economic backdrop gets, the more central ...

Adviser scammed family, friends

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2019
... inflating the amount owed to the franchise's soda machine vendor. Amongst Friends Investment Group investors purchased high-yield promissory notes and were promised 20% every 60 days. In reality, Amongst Friends Investment Group incurred heavy losses ...

Is EM an investor's saving grace?

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 7 NOV 2019
... and yet here we are," Doyle said. "Australians, especially those with SMSFs, are turning to global markets on the hunt for yield and going into riskier markers to search for returns. This is a new trend for Australians." Fidelity expects emerging markets ...

Chief economist update: The yen to dictate if BOJ turns words into action

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 NOV 2019
... introduced quantitative and qualitative easing (QQE) with negative interest rates (in January 2016) and expanded further to "with yield curve control" in September of the same year. Since then, it's let its mouth do the policy adjusting - or in the ...

Global manager hires Principal director

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 NOV 2019
... spokesperson said. Barings' offering for Australian institutional investors includes strategies in fixed income (high yield, structured credit, private credit, emerging markets and investment grade), equities (EM, small caps, active quant and global ...

Boutique hires CBA's credit strategy lead

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 4 NOV 2019
... support additional growth," Buckingham told Financial Standard. Mutual has just launched two new funds, in credit and high-yield income. Rundell has over 25 years of experience, most recently as head of credit strategy in CBA's global markets research ...

Chief economist update: Fed pause could be a short one

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2019
... inflation rate decelerated to 1.7% from 1.8% over the same period. Not only that, inflation expectations - as measured by the yield differential between 10-year Treasuries and Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS) - have fallen to 1.54% at the ...