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To honour International Women's Day, we want to shine a spotlight on two inspiring young women at FIIG pioneering the way for aspiring female professionals in finance, and hear from them, why they choose to work at FIIG, in fixed income, and what International Women’s Day means to them.
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In this article, our Head of Research, Philip Brown, summarises what BBSW is, how it behaves, and what is meant by bank bills, BBSY, swaps and benchmarks. The Bank Bill Swap Rate, commonly known as BBSW, is the most common measure of short-dated interest rates in Australia. Strictly speaking, it is the rate at which Australia’s prime banks borrow money for short periods, like three months or six months. BBSW is normally near, but just above, the RBA cash rate.
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As part of the recent FIIG webinar on the Macroeconomic Outlook, we opened the (digital) floor to questions. Working on the theory that if one person is curious enough to publicly ask the question, a lot more people are curious enough to know the answer, we present the questions from that webinar with answers written by FIIG’s Head of Research, Philip Brown.
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Asset-backed securitisation is a funding technique that allows the pooling of a large number of loans into a single financing vehicle, which then issues a number of different tranches of debt with varying seniority.
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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.
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The current portfolio yields an indicative 5.80%* to the assumed maturity dates and is an approximate $205k spend.
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FIIG’s Investment Strategy Team conducts an annual review of client portfolios, in addition to portfolio reviews carried out throughout the year. This assists clients to better understand the construction of their portfolios to make more insightful investment decisions.
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The team at FIIG share their favourite reads and podcasts for 2023
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Look back on this year's most read articles.
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IABs offer protection against inflationary pressures, making them a crucial allocation during times of high inflation, but also offering many other benefits too. Here we discuss how they work and why they’re considered a core portfolio holding.