Fixed Income

We wade into the debate on valuations of private assets stressing the importance of understanding the background and rationale for different approaches and why transparency is critical. We also discuss recent events around Credit Suisse and US regional banks.

We discuss the impact that house price formations during COVID had on reducing vacancy rates, even in the face of net outward migration.

We provide our quarterly around-the-grounds perspective on public and private credit markets covering activity in the final quarter of 2022 and refreshing our views for the year ahead.

We look through recent headlines around Blackstone’s interval funds, revisiting the topic of how to better assess risk at a fund rather than an investment level.

We take a look at what the real central bankers (the major banks) in Australia are up to and investigate how they are allocating RBA cash rate increases between depositors and borrowers on both the retail and corporate side.

We provide our quarterly around-the-grounds perspective on public and private credit markets.

We explore the impact of mortgage rate increases on the most highly leveraged borrowers finding that on average even these borrowers can still pay their mortgages.

We look at public and private corporate borrowers in Australia, assessing whether they took advantage of the low interest rates of the past 5 years and have left themselves with an elevated interest burden as rates reset.

In this episode of ifa’s Investment Showcase, Sid Kumar speaks about private debt and how it has fared in what has been a particularly challenging environment.

In our quarterly around-the-grounds, we provide our perspective on public and private credit markets covering the weakest quarter for credit markets since March 2020.

While the responsible investment revolution is well established in traditional fixed income markets, there are many parts of the market where standards are far less developed.

Pete Robinson tell us about the opportunities he is seeing in the credit space – including a note on the importance of price to performance dispersion.