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Bonds aiding not-for-profit investors

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2017
Bonds are increasingly popular among not-for-profit and charity organisations as they seek to make returns on donations in the face of low interest rates. The combination of scarce donor capital and historically low rates has placed NFP trustees and ...

DomaCom gets ASIC tick for bond crowdfunding

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 7 FEB 2017
... DomaCom's Australian financial services licence has been varied so the company can now offer fractional investment in corporate bonds as well as peer-to-peer mortgage bond sub-funds. On the latter, DomaCom chief executive Arthur Naoumidis said: "Mortgage ...

J.P. Morgan bullish on several asset classes

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2017
... fixed income and FX strategy for Australia and New Zealand added the firm was bullish on every asset class except sovereign bonds, where returns will be negative in 2017. This was reflected in the first half of the 2016-17 financial year, Auld said. ...

Financial advisers losing communication battle

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2017
... future of financial advice is a communication breakdown between advisers and clients. "It's not just about simple stocks and bonds anymore - there are a lot more sophisticated instruments being used and alternative investment options to choose from. ...

Asset manager profits under pressure

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2017
... broadly achievable in 2006 with an 8.1% standard deviation via a 60/40 split between either US or global investment-grade bonds and global developed equities. Ten years later, a far more nuanced approach is required: Anderson's example was a mix of factor-tilted ...

Don't follow consensus: Baur

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2017
... early next. The key will be the level of 10-year US Treasury yields - we think somewhere between three and 3.5% on treasury bonds. And the signal for US rates to the next step upward will be the rising rates and a little more inflation in Japan and central ...

Asset management more complex than ever

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 2 FEB 2017
... usually be met back in 2006 with an 8.1% standard deviation via a 60/40 split between either US or global investment-grade bonds and global developed equities. Ten years later, a far more nuanced approach is required: Anderson's example was a mix of ...

Australian pension market grows

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2017
... Watson's Global Pension Assets Study shows that Australia's higher aggregate weight to Australian cash and lower weight to bonds compared to Canada were among the key drivers, as was the strong performance of growth-orientated assets to which Australia ...

Government to aid growth of social impact investment

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 30 JAN 2017
... that facilitates institutional investors to finance housing stock. Cbus encouraged the establishment of affordable housing bonds, whereby an intermediary aggregator would issue bonds to investors and finance large-scale affordable housing providers. ...

Hedge funds riding wave of uncertainty: AIMA

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 27 JAN 2017
Capitalising on uncertainty in global markets, hedge funds outperformed bonds and equities on a risk-adjusted basis throughout 2016. New research from the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) and Preqin found that over the year, hedge ...