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With the US-China “trade war” fears fading away, the month of May 2018 became mostly a month of tit-for-tats between the US and North Korea with the possibility of a summit remaining quite high. US 10-year yields in response, dropped back below the important 3% level at the end of the month and credit fundamentals remain solid. The domestic market [...]

6 Jun, 2018

BondAdviser Ratesheet as at 6th June 2018

By Bond Adviser|2018-06-06T23:12:49+10:00Jun 6, 2018|Ratesheets|

Click here to access the BondAdviser Ratesheet as at 6th June 2018.

6 Jun, 2018

Ferrari or Italy – Which Is More “Risk Free”?

By Bond Adviser|2018-06-06T22:30:50+10:00Jun 6, 2018|Case Study, Education|

The concept of a risk free-rate, or the yield of government-issued securities, has long been one of the fundamental building blocks of capitalism and the basis of modern financial literature. It is a concept so intuitive that the general investing public in much of the developed world has largely taken for granted, both academically, and in most cases, in practice. [...]

6 Jun, 2018

Credit-Default Swaps: What Role Do They Play?

By Bond Adviser|2018-06-06T22:11:27+10:00Jun 6, 2018|Education|

The mere mention of credit-default swaps (CDS) would cause many investors to cast their minds back to 2008, when these credit derivatives were at the heart of the global financial crisis (GFC). In case you missed Margot Robbie’s explanation in the 2015 film, The Big Short, a CDS is a form of contract in which the purchaser gets paid out [...]

4 Jun, 2018