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The growth-inflation divide

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 APR 2017
... outlook. But while it kept the repo rate unchanged at -0.5%, "the Executive Board decided to extend the purchases of government bonds by SEK 15 billion during the second half of 2017 and to hold the repo rate unchanged at a^\'0.50 per cent. The repo ...

BT Panorama lists sovereign bond fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 27 APR 2017
... client portfolios. Colchester Global Investors head of distribution Angela MacPherson said investing in physical sovereign bonds ensures liquidity in all markets and a simplicity that clients can understand. According to the PDS, the fund is actively ...

VanEck to launch smart beta bond ETF

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 27 APR 2017
... iBoxx AUD Corporates Yield Plus Index. This index targets the top 50% of the highest-yielding Australian-issued corporate bonds. Individual issuer exposure is capped at 5%, and 80% of the bonds in the index are investment grade. The ETF carries a management ...

Smarter Money funds get Lonsec tick

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 20 APR 2017
... meanwhile, targets a 1.5 to 3% return over the RBA cash rate after fees and invests in domestic deposits, investment-grade bonds and bank and company-issued hybrids. It has delivered a net excess return of 1.7% over fees over a two-year period, and 1.82% ...

Australian Ethical Super leads new green bond

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 18 APR 2017
... and are rated A- by Standard & Poor's. It has also been approved as a Certified Climate Bond by the London-based Climate Bonds Initiative, and proceeds will be used to retire existing debt facilities and will be fully allocated against a portfolio of ...

Coolabah Capital hires former Energy Super chair

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 11 APR 2017
... risk." "We focus on generating pure alpha in safe and liquid asset-classes through capital gains deriving from mispriced bonds that are converging back to fair value," Joye said. Coolabah was founded in 2011 and is 75% owned by its investment team. It ...

Family office manager expands

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 11 APR 2017
... investing as a multi-strategy hedge fund in the Australian market and managed a portfolio focused on credit and convertible bonds. Atrium's new head of risk and quantitative research is David Toohey. He was previously an investment director at BlueSky ...

IMF Bentham taps debt markets

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 6 APR 2017
... oversubscribed from the minimum issue size of $18 million. Completion of the $30 million issue takes the total amount of bonds issued by IMF through FIIG to $72 million. FIIG Securities head of debt capital markets John Ricciotti said IMF Bentham's strong ...

PIMCO fund "Highly Recommended"

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 4 APR 2017
... yield is hard to come by." In discussing the funds' approach, Murata said: "Some income funds focus mainly on corporate bonds and can invest without limit in high yield securities - an approach that can result in a portfolio with concentrated credit ...

BT and Asgard add bond fund

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 4 APR 2017
An active bond fund has been added to the BT Wrap and Asgard platforms. Jamieson Coote Bonds' Active Bond Fund is the retail form of its wholesale Australian government bond strategy; it was recently rated as "recommended" by Lonsec. The fund is distributed ...