Bond yields can be misleading
How can a negative yield bond deliver a positive return, or a positive yield bond deliver a loss?
Market Insights
Household wealth and its hidden exposure to the housing market
The average Australian household’s wealth may be even more exposed to the housing market than many people realise.
Repo dislocations – a case study in market inefficiency
The ‘repo market’ – has received an unusual amount of attention since the latter part of 2019.
There’s more to fixed income than just buying bonds
This article outlines why a relative value approach is a compelling alternative to traditional fixed income investing.
Growing liquidity risk in fixed income portfolios
Liquidity, like the plumbing in your house, gets little attention until something goes wrong.
The drivers of conventional fixed income returns
To properly assess performance the underlying drivers of return must be understood, including the types of risk to which a portfolio is exposed.
Market inefficiency is a growing opportunity in fixed income
Fixed income market inefficiency creates a vast and diverse range of mispricing opportunities that ‘relative value’ specialists can exploit.
Are illiquid bonds the ‘WeWork’ of the fixed income world?
Providing the ability to transact freely and liquidity plays a big role in how confident you can be about an investment’s valuation.
Exploiting arbitrage in bond markets
In this podcast Portfolio Manager, Gopi Karunakaran, speaks to Alan Kohler about the Ardea Real Outcome Fund and how it operates.
The push and pull on bond yields
2019’s rampant bond rally came to a halt this month as bond yields rose, causing bond prices to fall across most major bond markets.