NEWS
Corporate bond investors should be careful what they wish for
Is central bank support for corporate bond markets truly unlimited? Our sense is decidedly not.
Corporate bonds are not a natural asset for central banks to own and investors need to be aware of the risk that central bank...
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Is There Something Systematically Wrong with Victoria's COVID-19 Performance?
Our data scientists' analysis of Victoria's COVID-19 infection trajectory has unearthed a disturbing finding: it would appear that since April our southern neighbour has systematically underperformed the rest of Australia's key...
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Surviving the Dividend Drought
The nature of the post COVID-19 business operating environment is unclear. Consumer willingness to go out and employee caution and practicalities of a return to the office will weigh on consumption.
Businesses have deferred...
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Is it Time to Invest in the Great Australian Dream?
COVID-19 has posed an incredible challenge to the Australian economy. Following broad stimulus measures, more recently Federal and State Government attention has narrowed to specific sectors. The highly cyclical housing construction sector...
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Will COVID-19 Cripple the 4 Banks?
Bank profits have been falling since 2015, but the latest half-year was particularly dismal. Loan growth was weak even before COVID-19 arrived on the scene, and the banks were already paying hefty remediation charges for their crimes...
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Manager Insights | Kardinia Capital
Australian Fund Monitors speaks with Kristiaan Rehder, Portfolio Manager of the Bennelong Kardinia Absolute Return Fund. Kristiaan shares his views on recent market activity and gives an update on how Kardinia Capital have positioned the...
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New Funds on Fundmonitors.com
Here are some of the latest additions to our database. Follow the links to view each fund's profile, where you'll have access to their offer documents, monthly reports, historical returns, performance analytics, rankings, research,...
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Why I'm not a fan of the Fed buying corporate bonds
In March, the U.S. Federal Reserve moved to prevent a coronavirus-induced downturn by promising to set up an entity to buy corporate bonds and ETFs, including junk bonds and junk bond ETFs. My concern is that the Fed has simply created...
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Hotwiring the Chinese Economy
The Chinese economy has stalled. The manufacturing PMI for May was an anaemic 50.6, a touch worse than April's 50.8. The PMI is a dispersion index, which means that figures above 50.0 indicate expansion, and figures below 50.0 indicate...
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How to Cash in on the Next Market Crash
Is it safe to say it's over?
I think so. It's possible the recovery has been too far, too fast. Markets could very easily fall from here. But the economy is already recovering, the health crisis is not as bad as feared and many...
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