China’s ambition to green its financial market has been making significant progress. Chief among the efforts was the publication of China’s Green Bond Principles in July 2022.
The new rules are said to closely align with international green bond standards and to unify the formerly fragmented domestic market. A key...
Elizabeth Moran takes a look at BetaShares' new Interest Rate Hedged Australian Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF (HCRD) and suggests some advantages and disadvantages.
It’s always exciting to see new fixed income products come to market and last week, BetaShares’ announced its new fixed income ETF, HCRD, which hedges a...
Last week I interviewed Darren Wills, BlackRock’s APAC Head of Fixed Income in iShares and Institutional Index Investments. Darren shares much in this interview including his strategic asset allocation views, the case for using fixed-income ETFs alongside direct investment and current market themes and trends.
Darren Wills - Thinking about...
A report from T. Rowe Price Head of Multi-Asset Solutions APAC Thomas Poullaouec and team covering an AU/APAC focus.
MARKET PERSPECTIVE
The outlook for the global economy remains uncertain as central banks navigate battling stubbornly high inflation in the face of weakening growth expectations.
Taming inflation remains the US Federal...
In trying to absorb the “new normal,” capital markets have re-priced assets in ways that create a more balanced picture between equity, fixed income and alternative options, according to Stephen Dover, head of Franklin Templeton Institute.
According to Dover: “In a recent discussion, the Franklin Templeton investment managers broadly agree...
By Dan Siluk and Jason England, Kapstream Capital
Impact of higher global bond yields
The Federal Reserve (Fed) acknowledged that “cumulative tightening” will be a factor in future rate decisions, but we still believe the central bank will be forced to remain hawkish longer than it expects.
While we believe...
A report from T. Rowe Price Head of Multi-Asset Solutions APAC Thomas Poullaouec and team covering an AU/APAC focus.
MARKET PERSPECTIVE
The global economic outlook remains uncertain as central banks balance reining in high inflation against a weakening growth backdrop.
The US Federal Reserve reinforced its commitment to bring down...
A major danger of assessing sustainable investing is to simplify circumstances deserving of nuance. This is particularly the case for emerging sovereign debt markets, where debt levels and GDP income show only a fraction of the story.
No country can achieve a sustainable growth pattern or an inclusive economic outcome...
One of the great advantages of managing benchmark unaware credit strategies is the greater avenues at your disposal to extract higher risk returns through a cycle. Indeed, as with the Scorpions’ famed 1990 ballad, we believe that ‘listening to the wind of change’ is helping to keep us ahead...
While financial crises are often similar, the excesses of each cycle are unique.
Today’s excesses resulted from central bank policies designed to counter an extended period of slow growth and low inflation.
Amid weakening demand and contracting margins, corporate balance sheets appear increasingly vulnerable.
Financial market crises tend to...
