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MaxCap names chief risk officer

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2025
A senior banker credited with developing the Australian securitisation market has landed at MaxCap Group, the real estate fund manager. A former head of global securitisation at National Australia Bank, Manny Arabatzis has been appointed chief risk ...

BlackRock iShares launches two ETFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020
iShares today listed two exchange traded funds on the ASX that invest in Australian corporate bonds. The iShares Yield Plus ETF (IYLD) tracks a customised Bloomberg index that measures the performance of the Australian corporate bond market after excluding ...

The next big short

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
Late last year, before extreme weather events battered the world, before COVID-19, The Big Short 's Michael Burry said he had found the next bubble: passive investments. Now, with asset prices trembling in the face of the pandemic, could there still ...

Boutique fund manager eyes second LIC

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2018
... venture. Cadence Capital confirmed it will launch an initial public offering (IPO) for the Cadence Opportunities Fund (ASX:CDO) in the coming months. It plans to trade more actively than the firm's first self-titled LIC, and "within an established shorter ...

Beware creative debt packaging: Robeco

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 1 SEP 2017
In this low volatility environment, it's important not to fall into the trap of chasing yields and creatively packaging debt again - reminiscent of the lead up to the Global Financial Crisis, a fixed income expert says. Robeco Singapore fixed income ...

MYEFO: Surplus of promises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 DEC 2016
Beam me up Scotty! That's the underlying message from Australian Federal Treasurer Scott Morrison's Budget update where the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) report showed the budget deficit beamed up by a cumulative A$10.3 billion over the ...

CalPERS and Moody's settle for $130 million

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2016
The California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) has settled with Moody's for a record US$130 million for its erroneous ratings of structured investment vehicles prior to the Global Financial Crisis. The lawsuit tops CalPERS' US$125 million ...

New kid on the block

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2015
... bubble (or at least, keep this bubble from popping). Think back to the dotcom days or more recently, the financial-engineered CDO's of not too long ago (even the Fed and the IMF and their dogs didn't think they were in a bubble back then until... popped ...

Rational exuberance?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2013
Some years back I used to have discussions with several of my gentle readers (you know who you are, gentle folks) about whether or not QE would work, is working, or not. The passage of time since the Fed minted its first QE dollar had proven that it ...

Mother of all hard landings and other BSes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2013
... columnist William Pesek quoted Edwards saying that, "Australia is a leveraged time bomb waiting to blow." "It is not just a CDO, but a CDO squared. All we have in Australia is, at its simplest, a credit bubble built upon a commodity boom dependent for ...
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