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Vanguard cuts fee on bond ETF

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 11 APR 2023
... This includes bonds issued by the Australian Commonwealth and state governments, as well as investment-grade bonds rated as BBB- or higher. At the end of February, VAF returned 2.47% p.a. on a 10-year period. "At Vanguard our products undergo periodic ...

MSCI, FTSE Russell drop Russia from indexes

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2022
... with respondents overwhelmingly deeming it uninvestable. Earlier this week MSCI downgraded Russia's ESG rating, dropping from BBB to BB with a negative outlook. Meanwhile, FTSE Russell will delete Russia from all its equity indices from March 7. "Russia ...

MSCI downgrades Russia's ESG rating

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2022
... downgraded its ESG Government Rating of Russia in response to its invasion of Ukraine. Russia's rating was downgraded from BBB to B with a negative outlook, and the rating for Belarus was also downgraded from BB to B. The ratings reflect how a country's ...

Private debt and YFYS: Research

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 18 FEB 2022
... assumptions that all loans are floating rate, private debt spread was set at 3% over the average of the past three months' BBB corporate bond option adjusted spread (OAS), a 2% borrower paid upfront fee for each loan originated and total private debt ...

Aberdeen drops fees on fixed income fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2020
... inflation-linked bonds and about 4.8%% in cash and cash equivalents. The credit rating was AAA (about 56%), AA (about 15%), A (11.3%) and BBB (14.3%). Last year, many fixed income managers trimmed their fees as they looked to limit their share of funds' ...

ASIC, IOSCO report on debt capital raisings

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2020
... 2019, the Commonwealth Government's $19 billion AAA-rated transaction in May this year, and Woolworths Group's $1 billion -BBB-rated issue, also in May. The report found that some licensees have overly generic arrangements to manage conflicts of interest ...

S&P downgrades AMP

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2020
... Limited and AMP Group have been hit with a credit downgrade from S&P. S&P downgraded AMP Limited and AMP Group Holdings from BBB to BBB-. AMP Bank also got a downgrade, from BBB+ to BBB. However, the outlook for AMP Group improved from "creditwatch with ...

AMP hit with credit downgrade

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2020
Standard & Poor's has downgraded AMP Limited's credit rating from BBB+ to BBB, with all AMP Group entities on CreditWatch with negative implications. The rating assigned to AMP Bank remains unchanged by S&P at BBB+. The change to the credit rating is ...

S&P warns of record fallen angels

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020
... 58 in rated debt. There have been 30 bond issuers worldwide to receive fallen angel status and a record 126 on a rating of BBB-, the lowest investment-grade rung. The ratings agency said moves by the US central bank to pump liquidity into the market ...

Junk by name, junk by nature?

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... bonds look very attractive, despite their risks. These bonds attract credit ratings by houses such as Moody's or S&P of BBB- and lower, meaning they are sub-investment grade. This lower credit rating usually relates to higher debt levels (like banks) ...
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