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Legg Mason bond funds receive Zenith tick

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAR 2017
... for its "hub and spoke" structure, wherein a global investment strategy committee oversees decisions on duration, yield curve, sector selection and currencies, and specialist teams implement targeted exposures. The Macro Opportunities Fund, which was ...

Bond investors urged to play tactics

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2017
... months, says BondAdviser. In its 2017 outlook, the fixed income research platform found the possibility of a steeper yield curve might make it challenging for Australian bond investors employing index based methods and passive long-only strategies to ...

Legg Mason launches new bond fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 10 JAN 2017
... across a wide array of markets and economies. "Western Asset employs multiple strategies across interest rate duration, yield curve, sector rotation and security selection, country and currency selection to add value and diversify risk to exploit inefficiencies ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 DEC 2016
... trend result." This was largely driven by international developments: Rising commodity prices; the steepening of the yield curve and share market gains. Domestically-based confidence and the local housing market provided a negative offset. US existing ...

Trump is heaven's gift to central banks

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 NOV 2016
... GDP. Perverse as it may seem but the rise in US long-term bond yield has actually steepened the positive slope of the yield curve - indicating stronger growth than prior to the bond market's reaction to Trump's victory. And oh, the US dollar has risen ...

Aussie government bond flaunts confidence

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 13 OCT 2016
... example, pension funds, life insurance companies and fund managers." He added another positive outcome from extending the yield curve is that it provides a benchmark for longer-dated bond issuances in the private sector.

Slow, slower, slowing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2016
... Interest Rate" or "New Framework for Strengthening Monetary Easing: "Quantitative and Qualitative Monetary Easing with Yield Curve Control"", but it's competitive devaluation no matter how they're named. It's war! A currency war, that is. Just take a ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 SEP 2016
... of the BOJ's "New Framework for Strengthening Monetary Easing: "Quantitative and Qualitative Monetary Easing with Yield Curve Control"" announced this month, the on-going strength in the Japanese yen provides indication that this new initiative is, at ...

Central banks still got their mojo

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2016
... markets with a "New Framework for Strengthening Monetary Easing: "Quantitative and Qualitative Monetary Easing with Yield Curve Control" alongside not taking interest rates further down into the negative. Wall Street rallied - S&P up 1.1%; Dow up 0.9% ...

Christmas in September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2016
... announcement of a "New Framework for Strengthening Monetary Easing: "Quantitative and Qualitative Monetary Easing with Yield Curve Control"" (https://www.boj.or.jp/en/announcements/release_2016/k160921a.pdf), sending the Nikkei-225 index soaring by 1.9% ...