Full results for
Australian equity and bond funds are provided in Table 4.
Australian equities and bonds both had double - digit returns last year.
Not exact matches
If an aggressive investor wishes to construct a portfolio composed of Japanese
equities,
Australian bonds and cotton futures, he can purchase stakes in the iShares MSCI Japan ETF, the Vanguard
Australian Government
Bond Index ETF
and the iPath Bloomberg Cotton Subindex Total Return ETN.
However, Ms Lacaze told The
Australian Financial Review if two of the largest bondholders, Mt Kellett
and Fortress, which formed a strategic alliance in 2015, were to convert 100 per cent of the
bonds and exercise all of their warrants they would emerge with more than 40 per cent of the company's
equity but she added a further shareholder approval would have to be sought for a conversion of that extent.
There were 75
Australian large - cap
equity funds
and 13
Australian bond funds in the top quartile in June 2012, but just 2.7 % (two funds)
and 7.7 % (one fund), respectively, remained in the top quartile four years later.
If an aggressive investor wishes to construct a portfolio composed of Japanese
equities,
Australian bonds and cotton futures, he can purchase stakes in the iShares MSCI Japan ETF, the Vanguard
Australian Government
Bond Index ETF
and the iPath Bloomberg Cotton Subindex Total Return ETN.
Less than 15 % of International
Equity General
and Australian Bonds funds
and less than 30 % of
Australian Equity General
and Australian Equity A-REIT funds managed to outperform their respective benchmarks on an absolute basis.
There were 74 %, 69 %,
and 59 % of funds in the
Australian Equity Mid -
and Small - Cap,
Australian Bonds,
and Australian Equity General categories, respectively, that underperformed their respective benchmarks.
CTAs invest in a wide variety of product types: Commodities such as Corn or Sugar; Metals such as Gold or Copper; Fixed Income products such as US Treasury
Bonds or UK Gilts;
Equity Indices such as the S&P 500 or Nikkei 225,
and Foreign Exchange contracts such as
Australian Dollar / US Dollar or Euro / Japanese Yen.