The Reddit mania that catapulted GameStop shares has "reverberated through to the bond market", according to global equity manager Eaton Vance. Eaton Vance put AMC Entertainment, one of the largest movie theatre operators in the US and a prominent player in the European market, under the microscope. Portfolio managers at Eaton...
 Online jobs site SEEK, has been busy in the bond market over the last few weeks: Offering to redeem the $175m senior floating rate notes issued on 28 April 2017 and due April 2022 for cash. Seeking to tap its existing $150m of subordinated notes which were issued in...
ASX-listed gold miner Northern Star Resources Ltd has priced US$600 million worth of senior 10-year notes, paying 6.125 per cent a year paid semi-annually according to an ASX announcement today. The notes due in April 2033 will be guaranteed by certain wholly-owned subsidiaries of Northern Star. The company said it intends...
Corporate watchdog ASIC is warning of a fake Qantas corporate bond scam targeting Australian investors. ASIC said it was aware Australians have been directly offered fake Qantas corporate bonds with interest rates of 7.75% per annum. "Scammers are using the legitimate Qantas bonds listed on the ASX which have a coupon...
Apple Inc has gone to the US blue-chip bond market early this week, in what is seen as a move by a number of borrowers to raise cash ahead of important inflation readings which are due during the week. The most valuable company in the US sold bonds in a...
After successful bond issues by Western Sydney University (WSU) and University of Wollongong (UOW) late last year, the University of Melbourne is the first Australian corporate to issue a bond in 2021. The 10-year fixed rate bond has a coupon of 1.97%p.a. and raised $150 million. Despite being hit by covid...
Australian investors are largely denied the same range of investment choices as investors in other developed nations and should be outraged. Corporate bonds mostly remain the domain of institutional and professional investors for no good reason. Positively, companies such as the XTB company, Australian Bond Exchange and other bond brokers...
A new partnership between bond broker Australian Bond Exchange (ABE) and financial markets software and services group Iress will enable Australian investors to digitally invest directly in Australian corporate bonds. Under the agreement users of certain Iress products will be able to access all the bonds admitted to trading status...
National Australia Bank (NAB) today priced a $300 million green bond that will help improve the environmental performance of shopping centres owned by QIC Shopping Centre Fund (QSCF), one of the largest shopping centre landlords in Australia. The QSCF green bond is the world’s first Climate Bond-certified green bond to...
NBN Co, owner and builder of the National Broadband Network, has announced what it says is a record-breaking issuance by an Australian company of $1.2 billion worth of five-year bonds with a low coupon rate of one per cent.  The transaction is due to settle on 3 December 2020 and...

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