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Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 AUG 2016
... impact next year. To fund the package the Bank of Japan is expected to issue a range of construction and other longer term bonds types, commencing September. Oil, the bad news keeps coming Just as oil companies battle with world oil price flirts with ...

FIIG appoints head of middle markets

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2016
... said. FIIG is Australia's largest specialist fixed income provider with more than $11 billion in term deposits and corporate bonds under advice in its short-term money market and custody business.

Millennials' short-term thinking unrealistic

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2016
... to hold their investments for a little more than three (3.2) years. While this may be fine for cash and certain types of bonds, Schroders said it will often prove too short a time period to counteract the volatility associated with equities. Less than ...

Is gold on the ceiling for Australian investors?

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2016
... fund's "bricks and mortar." "Over short periods we like gold because it's volatile and it's uncorrelated to equities and bonds; and it tends to be mean reverting. Over longer periods it protects our investors from monetary inflation, it allows us to ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2016
AOFM to buy back short-dated bonds The commonwealth government is restructuring part its bond portfolio debt by offering to buy-back short-dated Treasury Bonds and swap them into other durations. The Australian Office of Financial Management said this ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2016
... Australian Office of Financial Management, the Australian commonwealth government has $428 billion outstanding in issued bonds which is almost triple what it was at end June 2010. BP losses reduce as debt jumps 24pct Energy conglomerate BP has announced ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2016
... infrastructure investment by about 11%, or A$477 billion a year. Chinese own only 4% of US govt debt Chinese holdings of US Treasury bonds has fallen A$1.7 trillion or about 30% of the A$5.3 trillion in US government bonds owned by foreign countries. ...

Absolute returns no longer the domain of instos

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2016
... straightforward approach to multi-asset investing. The long-only fund invests in high-quality global equities, global sovereign bonds and cash. It has a two-year track record in Australia and implements the same investment philosophy as its UK offering ...

Bond investors must relax benchmark constraints

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2016
... Switzerland. Managing director of QIC's Global Liquid Strategies (GLS), Susan Buckley, said around 30% of the world's government bonds and an increasing amount of corporate bonds trade with negative yields. "The central banks have gone down the negative ...

World first green bond raises $300m

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUL 2016
... (TCV); National Australia Bank is the sole arranger, green bond structuring agent and lead manager for TVC on the issue. The bonds are the first state or federal government issued bonds, globally, to receive international climate bond certification. ...