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The core of any good portfolio, learn about the key themes and opportunities in fixed interest.

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Increase your income, not your risk

It’s not hard to find investments ‘advertising’ income above the miserly returns on standard income-oriented investments. While the temptation is to replace falling...
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The global economy is fragile

Looking ahead to 2020, the one thing investors cannot ignore is just how fragile the world economy actually is. While we are not forecasting an imminent global...
Paul Chin
Jamieson Coote Bonds
Fixed Income

Targeting risk-free assets − implications for investors

RBA Governor Lowe has detailed his preference for a possible RBA Quantitative Easing (QE) program after further possible RBA rates cuts. Lowe suggests ‘’if’’ the RBA...
Charlie Jamieson
Jamieson Coote Bonds
Fixed Income

Argentina and Lebanon are Broke, so let’s Lend to Angola

The travails of Argentina are well known, they’ve defaulted on their debt yet again with bondholders now fretting over how big a haircut the country will try to impose...
Jonathan Rochford
Narrow Road Capital
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What every investor should know about hybrids

Hybrids are just a single component of the much broader fixed income universe, which itself is bigger than the entire global equities market. And while hybrids can...
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Go global or go home

It’s no secret Australians tend to stay local when investing. And, compared to our offshore counterparts, our investment portfolios are significantly underexposed to...
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US Subprime is Back – this Time it’s Auto Loans

It’s no great secret that global automakers are having a tough time, sales are falling leading to inventory building and furloughs or shutdowns of production...
Jonathan Rochford
Narrow Road Capital
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Australia vs USA: Where are the best income opportunities?

When looking at Australian and US investment-grade credit, they both offer similar risk premia, but when drilling down into each market, investors will discover stark...
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No place like home (for fixed income)

With Australia’s superannuation assets currently totalling $2.9 trillion, there have been marked movements in super fund allocations from Australian assets towards...
Andrew Lockhart
Metrics Credit Partners
Fixed Income

Virgin Australia’s Very Junky Debt Raising

Virgin Australia is spending $700 million to buy back the 35% share of the Velocity frequent flyer program that it sold in 2014 for $336 million. It is funding the...
Jonathan Rochford
Narrow Road Capital
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Too much money and nowhere to go

The RBA cut the official cash rate to a record low of 0.75% in October. And unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you’ll know the big 4 are showing reluctance to...
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The ‘WeWork’ of the fixed income world

Liquid securities are those that can be readily bought or sold in sufficient volumes, at reliably transparent prices, without incurring punitive transaction costs....
Gopi Karunakaran
Ardea Investment Management
Fixed Income

The evolving Chinese onshore bond market: Be wary of additional risks

The recent inclusion of the Chinese onshore bond market within broader global bond indices has increased the level of investor attention to the market. Despite its...
Clive Smith
Fixed Income

Credit Snapshots – October 2019

Shenanigans in Leveraged LoansThere’s something of an ongoing battle between journalists looking to write a sensational article about US high yield debt and fund...
Jonathan Rochford
Narrow Road Capital
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Politics over plain economic sense?

“Monetary policy cannot be the only game in town. It should be coupled with fiscal support,” said the IMF last week. The government is facing added pressure from the...
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How we predicted S&P's shock upgrade of major bank hybrids to investment-grade

Today I explain why most global high yield bonds are really just equity risk, with similar volatility and maximum 40% losses, while also lifting the lid on one of our...
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Christopher Joye
Coolabah Capital
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3 rules of thumb for emerging market debt

The often-quoted US$17 trillion worth of negative-yielding bonds are from developed economies such as Japan, Germany and France. In stark contrast, government bonds...
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Waiting for the fallout

We continue to expect downside economic risks will dominate markets for some time, even as central banks are easing policy and there are signs US–China trade tension...
Stuart Dear
Schroders
Fixed Income
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Embracing complexity

One of the current investment mantras at KKR is to ‘embrace complexity’. It sums up the global investment firm’s view that if assets are easy to access and easy to...
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Hunting for hidden pockets of opportunity

Fixed interest is a broad universe, and Stuart Dear, Deputy Head of Fixed Income, Schroders Australia invests actively across the full spectrum. We caught up with...
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Bucking the trend – CBA’s well-timed hybrid issue

Key takeaways CBA launches its PERLS XII issue, a hybrid deal with a 7.5-year first call and a margin of 3% above BBSW. As a Tier 1 security, this bucks the trend of...
Ashley Kopczynski
Ashley Kopczynski
Janus Henderson Investors
Fixed Income
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Overlooked income

KKR’s Jeremiah Lane says investors are being drawn towards assets with perceived liquidity as well as assets that are easy to understand. This has created an...
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Three reasons to stay invested

It’s not hard to build a compelling bear thesis when considering the trade war, the yield curve inversion, and the increasing risk of global recession. But when we...
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High chance of QE happening here

Most parts of the fixed interest universe are generally seen as defensive and an alternative to higher risk equity assets. So, what are the biggest risks hanging over...
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Thoughts on CBA Perls XII

Here are some basic thoughts from my team on CBA's new hybrid issue, which is not investment advice and should not be relied on for any decision-making. Note that this...
Christopher Joye
Coolabah Capital
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