Australian bond bull charges

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From the AFR:

International investors’ appetite for Australian bonds has waned as the local dollar tumbled. Fidelity Worldwide Investment has been sticking with its holdings and says it’s time to consider buying.

“It could be the turning point,” said Andrew Wells, the chief investment officer for fixed income at Fidelity Worldwide, which has $US290 billion in assets. “We do have big exposure in Australia. We have liked it for some time,” he said in an interview last week in Singapore.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.