It might seem odd that Australian retail fixed income funds were among the first to be hard hit by exposure to US sub-prime and ABS CDO risk. It is not as if there is even, to use bond market parlance, the Australian equivalent of the Belgian dentist. As Simon Maidment, managing director and head of fixed income at UBS in Sydney, says, Australia’s investor landscape differs markedly from that in Europe or the US. “Historically, retail investors in Australia haven’t owned bonds,” he says.
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