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S&P warns of record fallen angels

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020
... investment-grade rung. The ratings agency said moves by the US central bank to pump liquidity into the market through corporate bond purchases may help buffer the market. "The Federal Reserve's April 9 announcement that it would be including COVID-19-era ...

Chief economist update: COVID-19 nightmare makes Brexit a dream

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2020
... early March and by another 40 basis points to 0.1% later that month - as well as increasing its government and corporate bond purchases by £200 billion to £645 billion. Similarly, the Johnson government worked from home - implementing support measures ...

Chief economist update: The power of money (and a cure)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2020
"...and I think to myself, what a wonderful world." -- Louis Armstrong It seems a long, long time ago but it's only been three whole trading days (June 11) since Wall Street suffered a big fall - the day US benchmark equity indices closed sharply ...

BlackRock drops fees on bond ETFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2020
... iShares Yield Plus ETF (IYLD) tracks a customised Bloomberg index that measures the performance of the Australian corporate bond market after excluding issuance from the big four banks. IYLD is targeting 0.75% to 1% yield margin over the RBA cash rate ...

Fed buys up BlackRock ETFs

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2020
BlackRock has emerged as the biggest winner of the US Federal Reserve's corporate bond buying program, with its ETFs making up around half of the central bank's purchases. The Fed bought US$1.58 billion in investment grade and high-yield ETFs in May ...

BlackRock iShares launches two ETFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020
... iShares Yield Plus ETF (IYLD) tracks a customised Bloomberg index that measures the performance of the Australian corporate bond market after excluding issuance from the big four banks. IYLD is targeting 0.75% to 1% yield margin over the RBA cash rate ...

Iress inks bond exchange partnership

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2020
... said the move was driven by user demand. "We're excited to have built a simpler, more efficient way to access the corporate bond market," Gross said. "The new electronic interface removes inefficient, manual data entry processes, making it easier for ...

IFM Investors ready to ramp up corporate lending

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020
The industry-super-owned fund manager's credit team has about $500 million to deploy in the year ahead, eyeing opportunities in lending to mid-sized companies that will be forced to refinance after the COVID-19 crisis. IFM's credit team manages about ...

Investment manager launches income fund

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2020
... non-traditional credit markets," he said. "There is a US$4 trillion opportunity set across the US and European corporate bond, bank loan and alternative credit markets." The fund manager's multi-asset approach captures real-time shifts in value in all ...

Global asset manager launches new fund

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2020
... Income Fund. The asset manager said the fund is a concentrated, high-income portfolio of primarily global high yield corporate bond opportunities. The fund aim to apply an active management approach to global high yield to capitalise on market inefficiencies ...