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Labor, FSU call for Royal Commission

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 29 AUG 2017
... enough to convince the Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to establish a Royal Commission, Gallagher added. Credit rating agency Moody's announced APRA's concerns over the culture and practices at CBA are a "credit negative for the bank." CBA currently ...

NAB collaborates on responsible investment bond

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUL 2017
... at $200 million. The bond was arranged by NAB and acted as joint lead manager alongside UBS, while the debt was rated by Moody's as Aa2 (Stable). NAB chief customer officer corporate and institutional banking Mike Baird said the bond demonstrates a critical ...

The problem with currency extrapolation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUL 2017
... China's economy were showing signs of slowing, it's foreign exchange reserves dwindling and its credit ratings downgraded by Moody's in late May. Just as rational when the A$ was predicted to head higher. In May 2011, a global currency expert from a ...

Moody's downgraded and upgraded China's ratings

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAY 2017
... quotes from the 1939 classic movie, "Gone With the Wind" and, it appears, the same words China's financial markets gave to Moody's Investors Service when it downgraded China's long-term local currency and foreign currency issuer ratings to A1 from Aa3 ...

Australian economy proceeding according to projections

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
... Australia's (RBA) optimism over the economic outlook and at the same time afford federal treasurer ScoMo the right to give Moody's recent warning the one finger salute. Moody's Investor Services reportedly issued the warning ahead of today's Budget reveal ...

Responsible investing demand unstoppable

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 3 APR 2017
... are also becoming an increasingly popular option for investors and the swelling green bond market is testament to this. Moody's Investors Service indicates four green bonds were issued locally in 2016, representing about US$800 million or 0.9% of global ...

Goldman Sachs launches junk bond ETF

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAR 2017
... dollar-denominated bonds sold by US or Canadian companies that have minimum of one year to maturity and are rated BB+ by S&P, or Ba1 by Moody's or below. Issuers that have the lowest debt service and leverage metrics within each of three broad sectors ...

FIIG expands fixed income research team

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAR 2017
... strategy for Australia and New Zealand at the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) prior to joining Aberdeen. Low joins FIIG from Moody's Investor Service where she was an analyst in project and infrastructure finance covering regulated utilities (electricity ...

Queensland Treasury issues green bonds

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2017
... socially responsible investments has created new opportunities for ethically conscious fixed income investors. According to Moody's Investors Service, in the three months to 30 September more than US$26 billion in green bonds were sold around the world. ...

Moody Aussies

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2017
What's ailing us, Australians all? We can't seem to swing our mood towards optimism. While the latest Westpac-Melbourne Institute consumer sentiment index increased for the first time in three months in January, the 0.1% monthly pick-up was marginal ...