BetaShares has announced the launch of its US Treasury Bond ETF on the Australian Securities Exchange: BetaShares U.S. Treasury Bond 20+ Year ETF – Currency Hedged ETF (ASX: GGOV).
The ETF aims to track the S&P U.S. Treasury 20+ Year AUD Hedged Bond Index, and will provide investors with access...
FIIG Securities has announced the appointment of Alex Welch as chief executive officer, who will be taking over from founder and managing director, Jim Stening.
Welch is an experienced senior executive with an extensive background in broad wealth management roles across Asia Pacific at global wealth businesses Credit Suisse and...
The cost of a traditional English breakfast fry-up has jumped reflecting soaring inflation in the UK as the annual inflation rate hit 10.1 per cent this week.
The Office for National Statistics said the consumer price index rose from a reading of 9.4 per cent in June driven by rising...
In what will have all sorts of implications for the country's government bonds, Argentina has seen its inflation rate reach 7.4 percent in July.
Last week the Argentinian central bank increased its benchmark interest rate by 950 basis points to 69.5 per cent as inflation reached a 20-year high of...
The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has followed some of its rivals in raising funds through the bond market to bolster its regulatory capital requirements.
CBA last week attracted $6 billion worth of demand with $2.9bn for its three-year offer, (59 percent floating and the remainder fixed), and $3.1bn for its...
In a rare move, MyState Bank is sounding out investors about a new, wholesale over-the-counter hybrid issue (known as capital notes in the ASX listed market). There is little information available in the market, other than the hybrid will be a floating rate with Ord Minnett and Westpac Institutional...
Facebook's parent company Meta Platforms Inc. asked Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Bank of America Corp., and Barclays Plc to canvas investors for a potential senior unsecured debt offering last week and then made its bond-market debut with a US$10 billion deal.
Meta had not previously entered the bond...
ANZ Bank has raised $1.75 billion from its 10-year Tier 2 debt raising this week with a preference being shown for fixed-rate allocations.
Of the amount raised, $300 million was in the floating rate tranche with $1.45 billion in the fixed-rate tranche according to the Australian Financial Review.
Pricing was settled...
Vanguard’s Senior Economist, Alexis Gray has provided the following reaction in response to this afternoon’s RBA 50 bps rate hike.
RBA announcement and market reaction
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) raised the cash rate by 0.50% today as we had anticipated, taking the cash rate to 1.85% for the first...
Australia's first social impact bond targeting homelessness has been effective in tackling the crisis according to researchers from Flinders University and University of Western Australia.
Social impact bonds (SIBs), which were pioneered in Australia by Social Ventures Australia, involve private investors financing the delivery of social service programs, with governments repaying...
