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Bank guarantee must stay in place

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2009
... Nonetheless investment banks' debt capital markets teams enjoyed a bumper March quarter, with domestic and international corporate bond issuance up strongly. According to Bloomberg's March quarter capital markets league tables, international bond issuance ...

Global debt volumes jump one-third

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2009
... sector borrowers. According to Thomson Reuters debt market analysis, Asian sovereign debt grew 88 per cent while corporate bond issuance grew only 22 per cent. Asia's debt was raised through 155 issues in Japan, 104 in Australia, 205 in South Korea ...

First corporate bond issue of 2009

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2009
Australia's moribund corporate bond market showed signs of life this week when Australia Post launched a medium-term note issue. The issue will price later this week but the joint lead managers, ANZ and Commonwealth Bank, are confident that pricing ...

Fanning the flames of fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2009
... also noted that the positive impact of monetary policy and lower oil prices are being underestimated and that the corporate bond market has improved in 2009. Perhaps we are living in a world of fools, where the sane man is the fool, the idiot and worse ...

Nationalisation - that ugly word

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2009
Been there, done that. More money poured and promised to be poured into the economic and financial systems have not convinced equity markets that the 'beginning of the end' of the global financial crisis is nigh. US President Barack Obama declared these ...

Intech fixed interest tops IC survey

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2009
Intech's implemented consulting service takes the top gong in the Australian fixed interest and international fixed interest categories, according to a December quarter survey. The latest quarterly implemented consulting survey, jointly conducted by ...

Worst of the worst

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 JAN 2009
No prize for guessing but which G-7 country is suffering a worse hangover than the US? Clue: Its name also starts with the word United. In its latest World Economic Outlook report, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicted that global growth would ...

Challenger goes public

THE SHEET  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2008
... pool, up from 3.5 per cent at the closing of the issue. It's the middle of September and there has been no domestic corporate bond issuance in Australia since mid August, when the Australian branch of Bank of Scotland issued A$525 million of two-year ...

Henderson wins $275m fixed income mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2008
London-based Henderson Global Investors has won a $275.2 million fixed income mandate from Cheshire County Council as administering authority for the Cheshire Pension Fund. According to a statement by HGI, the assets will be invested in the recently ...

RMBS market on brink of collapse

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2008
... the ASF is proposing that the government, through the Australian Office of Financial Management, intervene in the corporate bond market to provide liquidity in the same way the RBA intervenes to support banks. The proposal is similar to how the home ...