Fixed Income

Morningstar has released its “top-performing global equity fund managers in 2021” report. This year, the funds that performed the best contained a well-disciplined approach to investing, together with an experienced team capable of producing high-performance numbers. The research report found that the top three global fund managers also had outstanding longer-term performance numbers. What this…

Australian investors ploughed as much as three times more money into equity-focused managed funds in 2021 than they did in 2020. Being the preferred source of investment vehicle for the majority of financial advisory groups and investment platforms, it provides a unique indicator into the sentiment within the advisory market. According to global funds researcher…

Leading thematic manager, Capital Group, is confident that the market downturn of 2020 was short-lived and entirely related to the COVID-19 outbreak, according to vice-chairman and president, Rob Lovelace.   Expanding on this point, he says that the “the powerful upswing in equity prices since then is simply a continuation of the bull market we’ve…

As we enter a post-Covid world, interest rates remain at all-time lows with seemingly no immediate respite. To compound matters, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has given “a very low probability” to the current surge in inflation triggering an early increase in official rates. Inflation has risen somewhat, but in underlying terms the rate…

A quiet announcement from one of Australia’s leading industry/union super funds at the beginning of December piqued my interest. The announcement came amid a busy week for investment announcements, with nearly every investor offering up an outlook statement. But this one was much more straightforward and delivered without any fanfare. It was the decision by…

Investment manager Daintree Capital, together with distribution partners Perennial and eInvest, held an investor webinar on its recently listed Hybrid Opportunities Fund (ASX:DHOF), which was quoted on the ASX earlier last month. With interest rates at all-time lows and the RBA giving “a very low probability” to the current surge in inflation triggering an early…

The RBA said it has little choice other than to scrap its yield curve control policy in targeting a 0.1 per cent yield on the April 2024 government bond. RBA Governor Lowe said, “Given the progress towards our goals and the revised outlook, the Board judged that it was no longer sustainable to maintain the…

“House prices could fall 20 per cent” read the headlines last week. Chris Joye, the founder of fixed-income manager Coolabah Capital, wasn’t seeking headlines, but rather being realistic in his latest piece. Having kept track of the entire cohort of mainstream economists for several years now, Joye continues to stand out as being the most…

“Investors should prepare to navigate unfamiliar terrain as the macro-economic landscape undergoes dramatic transformations over the secular horizon,” is the message from global asset manager PIMCO. But what exactly is PIMCO saying? At this year’s annual “Secular Forum,” PIMCO’s global investment professionals focused on the post-pandemic outlook  for the global economy, touching-on themes such as…

The biggest influence on investment returns in the September quarter was a clear ‘backing up’ or bond rates. Naturally, this is causing advisers across the country to reconsider the structure and longevity of their fixed income allocations. Depending on who you listen to it seems almost certain that rates will continue their march higher, so…

Leading global fixed interest and credit investment manager, Bentham Asset Management, celebrates 18 years of income as it continues to attract investors to its Bentham Global Income Fund, which focuses on capital preservation and income. Bentham Principal, CIO and portfolio manager, Richard Quin, has been with the firm for 18 years since he launched the…

We are “talking about talking about tapering,” said U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell earlier this year, as a strong economic recovery increased the risk of an inflation spike. Tapering refers to slowing the pace of the circa $120 billion of bonds that the Fed purchases each month, $80 billion of which are U.S. Treasury…