Australian fixed income

With exceptionally low yields across most developed markets and asset classes, investors are increasingly having to take more risk to achieve higher returns. Even...

Fixed income investors have long held a reputation in markets as the ‘smart money’. With a focus on stability, income, and capital protection, and a propensity for...

The latest Listed Managed Investments Monthly for July 2020 focuses on the implied default rates of each debt listed investment trust and compares these figures to...

Falling yields were already one of the biggest challenges facing retirees seeking investment income, but the dramatic impacts of COVID-19, which have seen bond yields...

What do you get when you throw a 32-year-fixed-income veteran into the room with a 32-year-old fixed income millennial? The Rate Debate. Darren Langer and Chris Rands...

Debt issuance from Australian corporates has been running hot in recent months, with some $5.5bn of credit issued into the public and private markets since September...

Last month we identified the reason why we believed the RBA was slowing down on cuts was the fact that the housing market was improving and that strength would...

What is compounding? Albert Einstein is reported as saying that compound interest is “the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it; he who doesn’t,...

Key Points - Banks have dramatically improved their capital positions in two main ways – firstly by lending more prudently, and secondly by increasing issuance of...