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Institutional Solutions Global Markets Fixed Income

About Us

How we can make a difference to your business:

  • Global coverage to bring you a broad fixed income offering .
  • High quality execution, market intelligence and research to develop a solution that can deliver the benefit your business requires such as regular income over long periods or stable returns without high volatility.
  • Investment periods to suit your business from one day to 20 years depending on your business  plans and investment cycle.
  • Investment ratings from AAA to unrated to suit the risk appetite of your business.

Download our brochure for more information about fixed income investing for wholesale clients. 

Solutions

Our fixed income investments provide regular, predictable income for a range of purposes.  We can develop a customised approach for your business that may include some of the following products:

  • Government bonds
  • Semi-government bonds
  • Corporate bonds
  • Floating rate notes
  • Inflation indexed bonds/CPI
  • Asset backed securities
  • Hybrid securities/convertibles
  • Repurchase agreements
  • Interest rate derivatives (swaps, options, FRAs)
  • 11am call (highly liquid short term deposit account)
  • Bank Bills/Negotiable Certificate of Deposit (NCDs)
  • Commercial paper
  • Residential and Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities (RMBS/CMBS)
  • Structured securities
  • Leveraged loans.

Global Economic & Markets Research

Our Global Economic & Markets Research (GEMR) team provides clients with regular, real-time research and insights enriched by CommBank internally generated data, showing changes in the economy across income, savings, expenditure and lending.

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What is Fixed Income?

Fixed income investments provide investors periodic interest payments and have a set maturity date. As a general rule, fixed income investments are less volatile than equities and provide investors with safe, predictable returns for medium to longer term investors.

Why invest in Fixed Income?

Fixed income investments can provide investors with three primary benefits:

1. Regular income over long periods

2. Stable returns without high volatility

3. Protect savings by diversifying your investment portfolios.

Where do bonds sit compared to other investment options?

When investing, the two main performance measures are risk and return. Fixed income investments are typically skewed towards the lower end of risk and return measures. Fixed income investments offer moderate returns, but are lower risk than shares or property. Compared to cash, fixed income investments generally offer better returns but are slightly more risky.