Australian Bonds

2022 was miserable for bond investors. Now, as Roy Keenan explains, they have more opportunities than they know what to do with!

A year ago, investors were questioning the prudence of the 60-40 blend and no one was predicting that, entering the 2022/23 financial year, they would be increasing...

Now that the US Federal Reserve (Fed) has lifted off zero interest rates, and the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is expected to follow suit in 2022, I felt it would...

It is almost taken for granted by investors that one should be paid for lending money to a third party. Yet as central banks around the world struggle to ’normalise’...

With the now familiar ‘reflation trade’ (one of the more overused terms of 2021!) now evident, the resulting steeper interest rate yield curve is providing a happy...

The Reserve Bank of Australia is committed to keeping easy monetary policy in place until it meets its ambitious goal of achieving full employment. By our...

The traditional mindset regarding fixed income is that the returns are low and it is a boring asset class. Investing in Woolworths' (ASX:WOW) bonds is not a barbeque...

In some countries, including the UK, Canada, and New Zealand, central banks are now buying more bonds than the government is issuing. So we're actually seeing a...

These are some exciting times for investors across the banks' capital structures, spanning equity, hybrids, subordinated bonds, senior bonds, deposits, and the safest...

Markets recoiled last week with increased US tariffs on Chinese goods increasing the all-out risk of a global trade war, where growth slows and just about everyone...

Recently Australian bond yields have moved below those of the US. Historically such negative spreads have tended to be uncommon and short lived. So let’s all rush...