Fixated: The Fixed Income Podcast

There are good reasons to think about adding global bonds to your portfolio. In this educational podcast episode, Richard Rauch from Brandywine Global Investment Management delves into government and corporate bonds and active and passive investment. The beauty of being global is the third in a series of four Fixed Income Building Blocks podcasts that aim to build your knowledge an

How do you build a fixed income product based on residential property? We spoke to CFMG Capital’s Andrew Thomson about how the CFMG Monthly Income Fund provides investors with exposure to competitive returns and the Australian property market, through loans secured by first mortgages over real property. It provides investors with a regular income stream, as the fund aims to distr

Where are we in the journey to lower inflation? Tune in to hear expert commentary from award winning fixed income portfolio manager, Dr Christian Baylis. What is the neutral real rate? What’s attractive right now? What do rising defaults mean for credit spreads? Learn about Fortlake’s fascinating default arbitrage strategy.

Learn some useful tips and lessons learned for your bond portfolio from Anthony Kirkham from Western Asset Management, a Franklin Templeton company. Diversification is a key reason investors turn to fixed income, but it’s important to think about liquidity and yield as well. Rising interest rates have changed the outlook and prospects for the asset class. Anthony talks big pictur

Asset backed securities (ABS), including residential mortgage backed securities (RMBS), provide relatively high, floating rate monthly income. Learn about the asset class, the risks and it’s many protections as well as Thinktank’s two funds in this informative podcast.

Career, life, decision making and figuring out the ‘why’. In celebration of International Women’s Day we sit down with Amy Xie Patrick from Pendal Group.

Have you ever wondered how a portfolio manager invests? In this podcast we unpack yield and risk with Andrew Canobi from Franklin Templeton. He explains the Franklin Templeton investment process and gives some unique insights into yield relationships between various securities. For example, Australian major bank senior unsecured, subordinated Tier 2 securities and hybrid Tier 1 sec

There’s a lot of mixed sentiment about what will happen to global interest rates this year; we chat to Senior Economist, Janu Chan about her inflation and interest rate expectations and the impact on fixed income markets. Chan resides in Hong Kong, so delves into capital flows in Asia Pacific and Evergrande’s liquidation order by Hong Kong’s High Court. Read more of Janu Chan

Ever wonder why a company decides to issue fixed income securities? In this podcast we talk about the decision making process and issuance of Asset Backed Securities (ABS) with George Whittle, Head of Funding at Brighte. We consider the ABS structure, investor appetite, what happens when deals are oversubscribed and tips for companies thinking about issuing debt securities.

This week we talk about high yield and emerging market bonds with Amy Xie Patrick, Head of Income Strategies at Pendal Group. We take a deep dive into these sectors, why they are attractive to investors, the risks associated with them, and favoured emerging market countries. Also discussed are the potential impact of a US recession and change of government, the Chinese economy, and