Earlier this year, Australian Bond Exchange set up a joint venture with trading platform IRESS to allow financial advisers to transact over the counter bonds on the platform on behalf of their clients. In this way, advisers can track total portfolio holdings and benefit from the reporting being in...
Introduction
The challenges humanity faces have never been more important than now. We are in the middle of an environmental transition that requires significant investments both in Australia and globally.
Australian investors are keen to play a role in financing this transition, however, need to solve the challenge of investing in...
Returns on investments just keep getting lower. As cashed-up investors look to alternative investments, fixed income funds have been beneficiaries.
Fortunately, some funds have been sympathetic to investors’ plight and the need for income and dropped fees accordingly. However, others persist with a high fee agenda, are the fees worth...
Undoubtedly, the easiest way to invest in bonds is by trying to find a fund that mimics your desired outcome. The fund could be a low cost, passive ETF that tracks an index or an actively managed, listed, or unlisted fund.
The fund manager manages the investments, deciding when to...
At first glance the proposed new changes to small business insolvency and liquidation seem positive, but who lends to the businesses and how do they raise funding? It soon becomes apparent that the changes will impact more than just small businesses.
With modest fanfare, the government announced changes to the...
“Bonds are the underwear in your portfolio – unexciting and not much thought about, but select the wrong pair and you’ll be surprised at just how uncomfortable you are.” - Dr William Bernstein
Like a good foundation garment, bonds should be the boring but predictable base of every investment portfolio –...
Can Government Bonds Continue to Act as Defensive Investments?
Government bond markets are now at the precipice of a paradigm shift. Unprecedented global fiscal stimulus. Extreme monetary policy experiments. Yields at multi-century lows.
In combination, these factors fundamentally change the risk vs. reward proposition of government bonds. So much so, they...
Australian retail investors are at a distinct disadvantage in the bond market.
Credit ratings are an important indication of the perceived future risk of an investment, but brokers are not able to show them to retail investors because of a quirky ASIC ruling.
The credit rating agencies refused to pay higher...
