bond

The fixed income market has been through a tumultuous period and whilst investors have felt the pain, there are effective strategies

Improved credit quality and attractive yields support the asset class.

The definition of a ‘bond vigilante’ is a bond trader who threatens to sell, or sells, a large amount of bonds to protest or signal distaste with policies of the...

There are media reports abound that Victoria has raised $7.9 billion from the partial sale of VicRoads. Treasurer Tim Pallas, confirms the funds will go to the...

The recent fall in US long-dated bond prices was a good reminder of what might happen if interest rates steadily rise from here. From September 2020 to March 2021 the...

In 2014, the former head of the US Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, stated “the problem with quantitative easing (QE) is that it works in practice but it doesn’t work in...

With sweeping lockdowns and a rampant Delta strain, the optimism that was slowly bubbling in June soon dwindled. Economic activity is set to contract, yet in...

The consensus is that emerging markets are a potential beneficiary from the US ‘blue wave’ after the Democratic Party won control of all three houses of government...

Last Tuesday’s RBA interest rate cut and accompanying statement didn’t bode well for investors that rely on income producing assets such as bonds. Investors need to...

Central banks globally have clearly been buying a lot of government bonds over the last decade. But just how much the world’s central banking powers own of their own...

The bond market has been telling us for a while all is not well with the US economy. An escalation in trade tensions between the US and China, the US and Europe, the...