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ASIC detects imposter bond scam

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2021
The corporate regulator is warning investors of scam bond investment operations targeting Australian investors with claims of high yield bond investments. The scammers are claiming to be from reputable domestic and international financial firms when ...

Market rotation signals win for value: Maple-Brown Abbott

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2021
... COVID-19 vaccine and its speedy rollout in many countries, as well as the US election result, both of which helped push long bond yields higher." Maple-Brown said that although price-earnings ratios of the most expensive stocks in the Australian market ...

Chief economist update: Virus now, inflation later

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2021
... happening with regards to monetary policy. The US Federal Reserve was itself busily trying to "lower the temperature" in the bond markets that saw the yield on 10-year US Treasuries more than double from 2020's low of 0.5% to 1.1%. Thanks to Factset ...

Tide turns in ETFs, managed funds inflows

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2021
... billion in the year, while Dimensional Fund Advisors had it worst with US$37 billion of outflows. By asset class, taxable- bond funds had a record year (US$441 billion in inflows) and so did commodities (US$37.6 billion in inflows). But equities funds ...

Raiz launches custom portfolio option

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2021
... Sustainability Leaders. Additionally, SPDR S+P 200 - STW.AU, iShares S+P Asia 50, iShares S+P Europe 350, iShares Composite Bond, Russell Aust Select Corp Bond, iShare Core S+P 500, Russell Australian Responsible Investment, Global Sustainability Leaders ...

Jobs return to pre-pandemic levels

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2021
... government with rebuilding the Australian economy. "At its future meetings, the board will closely monitor the effects of the bond purchases on the economy and on market functioning, as well as the evolving outlook for jobs and inflation," the RBA said. ...

Chief economist update: USA Inc is under new management

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2021
... global stage. This is backed by the rise in US equities, with all benchmark indices rallying to record highs, 10-year US bond yields slipping, and, the VIX index - the fear gauge - dropping by 7.1% to 21.58 points. More so this time that the US executive ...

Careful portfolio rebalances needed: First Sentier

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2021
... compensation for the volatility in capital value. "Instead, we favour a 'barbell' approach, owning some longer dated government bond exposures, and other higher yielding areas of fixed income such as corporate credit or emerging markets debt," Somaia ...

IFM impersonated in scam

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2021
... to members of the public requesting them to fill out an application form the invest in a "High Yield Fixed Rate Corporate Bond". IFM said it has reported the issue to the Australian Cyber Security Center and warned members of the public to ignore the ...

Chief economist update: COVID with a vengeance

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2021
... December 2020 meeting, the UK central bank voted unanimously to maintain Bank Rate at a record low of 0.1% and the size of its bond-buying program at £875 billion. Then again, at the time, it expected that: "The successful rollout of vaccines should ...