Ilan Israelstam
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first heard Mar 2020
last heard Mar 2020
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This is corporate bonds, bonds that are issued by companies to raise money for their activities.
They ultimately will have a higher risk than bonds issued by the Australian government.
So in every asset class, there's a different form of risk.
And so the idea is just to be quite diversified such that if, for example, there's a problem in the Australian corporate bond environment, then having Australian government bonds will be a safe haven.
So having that diversification available to you via the ETFs is actually a very valuable thing for investors.
And I think more than ever, we're seeing how important diversification could be.
Because even though
There's no question that right now, even the most risky bonds, corporate bonds, have been dropping in value.
They've still been dropping in value significantly less in the share market, which would mean that the addition of adding bonds to your portfolio would actually be a benefit.
And if you held the even less risky bonds, such as the government bonds, then obviously those have held up very, very well.
I don't think there's necessarily a question of one being more risky than the other.
I mean, the thing that we have to understand is that shares are generally more risky than bonds, which in turn are more risky than cash.
And gold has its own structure and movement.
So diversification is one thing that I definitely would encourage everybody to look at.
And I think the market has shown that if, for example, somebody decided they only wanted to buy one stock and let's say they...
thought that they were gonna have a great buy and buy Qantas shares, and that's the only way they acted the share market, that would have been down dramatically more than just buying the ASX 200 or our A200 ETF.
Even though that has also gone down, it would have gone down much, much less than, for example, a Qantas share.
So essentially,
These different instruments really just allow people to construct portfolios that are diversified and therefore ultimately less risky on a risk return basis than owning shares alone.
The truth is that you can use it for both because there's so many different types of ETFs now that you can actually use it for both.
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