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Macquarie bolsters green investments

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2018
... proprietary Green Impact Assessment service determining the green impact of assets, a key feature of the development of green bonds, loans and related products. Macquarie's chief financial officer Alex Harvey said: "This transaction further demonstrates ...

Pension fund becomes green lender

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2018
... to be the first pension fund to do so, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) described the issuance of green bonds as a logical next step in its investment-focused approach to climate change. CPPIB's senior managing director and global head ...

Aussie fixed income managers with global teams outperform: Zenith

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2018
... globalised teams are potentially at a relative advantage with respect to the timely research of offshore companies issuing bonds in Australia, this can be offset by a local player if they have superior interest rate management or savvy trading skills," ...

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 ...