Trade opportunities
Inflation linked securities offer unique protection which is an important consideration for building wealth and sustaining purchasing power.
Trade opportunities
Investing in a DirectBond portfolio through FIIG means you will have control over what you invest in, when you buy and sell, access to daily pricing and market leading reporting. This note suggests a beginner’s portfolio that can be scaled up or down and meets our suggested ~70% investment grade, ~30% high yield allocation.
Trade opportunities
The current portfolio has 12 bonds, yields 5.37% indicatively to worst* and is an approximate $200k spend.
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New issues update
Opinion
Given the huge rate rises priced into the market currently, we see value in short to medium term – say 3-5 year – fixed rate bonds. The advantage of fixed rate here is that they capture and lock in those market expectations even though they have not eventuated yet.
Trade opportunities
When there is greater uncertainty and the volatility that comes with it, having a balanced bond portfolio can really dampen the overall volatility of a wider portfolio composed of other asset classes.
Trade opportunities
We look at the benefits of actively managing maturities and early redemptions to get the most out of fixed income portfolios.
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New issues update
Trade opportunities
Almost daily, there are new corporate bonds being issued into the Australian domestic fixed income market. High yield bonds (either sub-investment grade or unrated) are a subset of that overall corporate bond issuance. FIIG has been the largest originator of unrated corporate bonds.
Trade opportunities
Recent events have managed to do what Central Banks have been struggling to achieve for over 10 years; they have created inflation.