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Investors back corporate bonds as COVID-19 winner

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
... bunch right now, as companies become focused on deleveraging (or lowering their debt metrics)," Innes said. "As a corporate bond investor, you sit higher up in the capital structure and benefit when chief financial officer's scrap the dividend as there ...

Cbus ready to deploy cash

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
... "We have been doing some work with NHFIC (National Housing Finance and Investment Corporation), we participated in their bond aggregator issuances where we effectively provided cheaper refinancing for organisation building new affordable housing," he ...

How early release impacts the ASX

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
With more than one million people applying for the government's early release scheme, questions surrounding super fund ownership in equity markets have come to the fore. The government's scheme will so far put at least a $9 billion strain on Australia's ...

Chief economist update: The outlook for Australia, according to COVID-19

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2020
"A stronger economic recovery is possible if there is further substantial progress in containing the coronavirus in the near term and there is a faster return to normal economic activity. On the other hand, if the lifting of restrictions is delayed ...

Mayfair 101 reveals new sub-division, hires chief

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2020
... opportunity for capital gains of its debenture products. Mayfair firmly denies any wrongdoing and has pushed ahead with a property bond for "qualified" wholesale investors promising a share in Mission Beach and Dunk Island tourist attractions for a minimum ...

TCorp funding hits $10bn since late March

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2020
... sector has issued two new transactions, taking its total funding since late March to $10 billion. TCorp issued a new 2041 bond last week at $450 million and also increased its 30-year Eurobond to €190 million. Amid the market turmoil sparked by the ...

Junk by name, junk by nature?

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... governments and companies, and offer higher rates of return to investors, albeit with heightened risk. In a world of low government bond yields (some below negative) and low term deposit rates, high yield bonds look very attractive, despite their risks. ...

Northern Trust touts new ESG tool to instos

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
The fast-growing custodian is pitching a new ESG analytics tools to local superannuation funds and asset managers to track, compare and benchmark their ESG score. Northern Trust, which is best known in Australia as custodian to a number of public sector ...

Global manager reduces fees on flagship fund

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... other T. Rowe Price offerings, the manager said, including its Australian Equity Fund (0.60% p.a.) and its Dynamic Global Bond Fund (0.40% p.a.), which have both been competitively priced for the post Royal Commission and FOFA environment. The government's ...

Aussie funds bleed $4bn in March

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2020
... investors redeemed net $2.7 billion from funds while UK investors pulled out about $7.3 billion. "Flows were mostly from bond funds, as was the case in Asia and Europe where political uncertainty produced more volatility throughout 2019 relative to Australia," ...