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BlackRock turns optimistic on credit

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... and cheaper oil may challenge some EM economies). Fixed income picks BlackRock Investment Institute's views on EM local currency debt have changed, as it downgrades the asset class to neutral from previous overweight as compared to broader global asset ...

COVID-19 ETP market winners, losers

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... listed property performing the worst, losing 34%. Australian equities were down 21% and international equities down 13% (currency hedged). "Investors in the ETP market traded harder than they ever had before," Rainmaker head of investment research John ...

Bitcoin bonanza amid COVID-19 crisis

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
... stabilise their local economies," De Corrado said. "In doing so, a lot of fears regarding inflation or the depreciation of currency has re-emerged among investors that are worried about the monetary and fiscal policy measures that have been used during ...

Future Fund falls 3.4% in March quarter

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
... year's returns so far to -0.2%. Returns for 10 years are 9.2%. March quarter returns were helped by the options, rates and currency strategies but Future Fund chief investment officer Raphael Arndt did not provide a break down of returns for different ...

IOOF, CountPlus, Iress want better path to fee consent

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2020
... outlined the rationale for using a blockchain as the single source of truth for providing trust and confidence in the currency and accuracy of data." CountPlus chief executive Matthew Rowe said the amount of additional work that the new legislation would ...

Credit value exists in emerging markets

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2020
... external, local and multilateral sources for relief programs, it said. "At the beginning of 2020, we expected gross EM hard currency sovereign issuance to be approximately $150 billion, much of which would go to refinance existing borrowings," Western ...

Market pain to continue: State Street

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2020
... Advisors senior investment strategist Raf Choudhury, this uncertainty and volatility surrounding equities, fixed income and currency markets has pushed investors to take on more risk. "As we progress into the second quarter of the year, the high in the ...

Plenty still want in on ETPs: Research

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020
... equities, with outflows in February of $56 million. "The most notable action was the repositioning of portfolios away from currency unhedged products towards currency hedged products," Dyall said. "Over March the Australian dollar fell 5% against the ...

Chief economist update: Different contagion, same fiscal policy divide

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 APR 2020
... governments must band together to win against the coronavirus contagion if they are to preserve the unity of the single-currency grouping. After all, the virus doesn't distinguish whether or not a member country has breached the Maastricht criteria ...

Chief economist update: AUD depreciation no cure for coronavirus

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
... over the past three decades (or just about) chiefly thanks to the floating Australian dollar - doing what a floating currency do best... restoring economic equilibrium. The Australian dollar's depreciation during times of turmoil has kept the domestic ...