NBN Co, Australia's government-owned broadband provider launched last week a senior unsecured Australian-dollar green bond with an indicative yield of 5.3 per cent. The five-year fixed rate debt raising closed at $850 million at a coupon of 5.2 percent according to the Australian Financial Review and was priced at a...
VisionFund International (VisionFund), the mission-focused microfinance subsidiary of children's charity World Vision, today announces it has raised AUD20 million with its first bond issue. In alignment with World Vision’s focus on children’s well-being and with the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals of promoting sustainable economic growth (SDG 8) and gender equality...
Cboe Australia has welcomed XTB’s innovative exchange-traded corporate bond products (XTBs) to the Cboe Funds platform. In partnership with XTB, Cboe Australia has launched a series of XTBs which provide retail investors with access to corporate bonds from four of Australia’s largest companies, Aurizon, Bank of Queensland, Coles, and Qantas. XTBs...
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...
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...
A new series of notes will be issued by Centuria Capital No 2 Fund and listed on the ASX in a bid to raise $100 million. A statement by Centuria, an ASX-listed specialist investment manager with around $10.2 billion in funds under management in property funds and investment bonds, said...
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...
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...
ASX-listed investment manager Neuberger Berman has secured more than $340 million of new investments as part of a capital raising for its NB Global Corporate Income Trust (NBI). Following settlement, Neuberger Berman will be the largest global fixed income listed investment trust (LIT) on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) with...
It is difficult to comprehend that the S&P500 is now pretty much unchanged on the year; how does that happen? Well, don’t fight the Fed is as good a place as any to start. In fairness, whether you believe the US jobs data or not, it was enough to...

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