Bank shares without the heartache
Think the banks are generally safe but may struggle to grow their profits and lift their share prices? Need regular income? Hybrids might stack up well as an alternative to bank shares.
Think the banks are generally safe but may struggle to grow their profits and lift their share prices? Need regular income? Hybrids might stack up well as an alternative to bank shares.
Another tough year is on the cards, which makes capital preservation the number one priority.
One investment stands head and shoulders above the rest when it comes to looking at current yields and the historical probability of loss.
Australia's big banks are lining up multibillion-dollar hybrid sales, but they'll be expected to pay record prices to attract investors that have been burnt in the chase for yield.
Former Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke and former European Central Bank president Jean-Claude Trichet will join the advisory board of fund giant PIMCO.
While interest rate risk favours a "home bias", there's still a place for international bonds in a balanced portfolio.
With yields so low and little sign of change on the horizon, now is a good time to consider the merits of floating rate notes.
Optimisation has been around for decades, but robo advice hasn't taken off in a big way in Australia. That could be about to change.
Is the bond market smarter than the equity market? Mark Burgess, the former head of the Future Fund, thinks so.
Savers are shunning term deposits despite the sharp falls in equity markets.
An interest rate rise in the US would be good news for bonds, but what does it mean for property investors and the sharemarket?
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