Fixed Income News Australia interviewed Head of Ares Australia Management Teiki Benveniste to get a behind the scenes look at the new Ares Diversified Credit Fund. We found out Ares Management has a long-standing history with Australian investors.
You have a strong French accent, how did you come to be...
A Sukuk is an Islamic financial certificate not unlike a bond in western terms, though there are some key differences. Sukuk bonds are not only preferred by Sharia-compliant investors but are also attracting interest from conventional investors around the world.
With five Gulf Cooperation Council countries (Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait,...
Are you thinking about investing in fixed income in 2021? Or perhaps, wondering what the experts think is the best place to invest? Well, the snippets below are a great place to start. We’ve compiled outlooks for the fixed income asset class for the year ahead.
There are some common...
Safety Concerns
We have written and spoken about the shortage of “safe havens” or high-quality assets in the world.
There exists an ever-pressing need for specific segments of the markets (pension funds, insurance companies, target date funds, etc.) to continue to own them and accumulate more.
For more information, we can...
Interest rate duration is a key fixed income concept, as it measures the sensitivity of a bond’s price to changes in interest rates (or bond yields).
Duration risk stems from the fact that a bond investor makes a payment today in exchange for a series of future interest payments.
At the...
There are different levels of debt or bond investment in companies. The level that you invest in will be dependent on the risk you are prepared to take and the return you want to achieve.
The lowest risk and highest quality investment in any single company is secured senior debt...
By Max Minack, BetaShares
With the RBA cutting the official cash rate and announcing further quantitative easing (QE) measures, as well as the dwindling dividend yields on the Australian and global sharemarkets, the hunt for yield has never been so intense. Despite this, there is one source of return that...
The Covid pandemic has caused governments of all levels around the world to take on huge amounts of extra debt as they face dwindling tax income and the need to provide fiscal stimulus to boost their economies. Fortunately, demand for yield has made issuing bonds relatively easy. Yields continue...
A Biden win in the US presidential election, and vaccines with 90% plus efficacy have lifted financial markets and sentiment has changed to a ‘risk on’ mentality.
All boats rise on an incoming tide, including high yield bonds. Purchases in the US to the week ending 11 November were US$3.3...
