Managing higher volatility has become much tougher with interest rates at such low levels since any change will lead to greater convexity, according to three panellists speaking at Investment Magazine’s…
Australian asset owners have intensified their search for yield in direct lending as cash rates head toward zero or below.
There are multiple drivers of currency and investors have failed to understand that these are far more complex than just momentum and carry and change over time.
While the world’s banks are the largest holders of leveraged loans and collateralised loan obligations, new data has revealed about 40 per cent of these instruments are owned by asset managers, private equity, and hedge funds.
Negative interest rates are rational, according to one top bond specialist, despite investor fears over the dramatic fall in bond yields and the rise of negative yielding debt.
Fixed income investors could use an environmental, social and governance approach to add another layer of risk management and do no harm to portfolio returns, an Australian ESG bond pioneer…
As superannuation funds grow, they become more important non-bank lenders to corporate Australia, offering diversity outside the big four banks, a discussion on banking regulations has heard.
Previously inaccessible alternative credit markets are now available to portfolio managers with a range of risks, geographies and products, fixed income and cash specialists have said.
