Trade opportunities
We've updated our Sample Portfolios for the month. March has been a relatively quiet month with yields trading in a relatively tight range, ending about 10bps lower, as the RBA has been on hold since November and the market consensus being the rate hike cycle has ended.
General
New issues update
Trade opportunities
The current portfolio yields an indicative 5.76%* to the assumed maturity dates and is an approximate $200k spend.
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New issues update
Trade opportunities
It’s been a topsy turvy month in the bond market with certain signs of inflation perking up their heads, particularly in the US, which has led to a repricing of the expected rate cuts to come this year, moving more in line with the US Federal Reserve officials forecasts and pushing yields higher.
General
New issues update
General
New issues update
Trade opportunities
A month is a long time in markets, and it’s been at least that long since we updated the portfolios. It’s also been the summer holidays domestically which means a quiet time, and this has definitely been the case apart from one spike of activity around the new Santander bond. In the run up to Christmas interest rates fell quite a long way as the
end of the hiking cycle got some investors excited. Since then, the story has been a reversion of this excitement as some of the cuts began to be priced out again and yields rose.
Trade opportunities
The current portfolio yields an indicative 5.80%* to the assumed maturity dates and is an approximate $205k spend.