G8 Education Limited has announced the early redemption of $155m of Singapore Dollar Notes. These notes will be redeemed on 29 February 2016. The purpose of issuing these notes was predominantly for the acquisition for Affinity Education which subsequently did not proceed. In our last update we reiterated that downside risks to investors comes from increased debt to fuel an aggressive acquisition program [...]
Everyone has now heard the story of the collapse of Dick Smith and that there are more than 100 interested parties representing over 350 unsecured creditors, owed about $250 million. So what happened? On 4 January 2016, the board of directors of Dick Smith appointed Joseph Hayes, Jason Preston, William Harris and Matthew Caddy of McGrathNicol as voluntary administrators. Following this appointment, [...]
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Wire: Bloomberg News (BN) Date: Nov 11 2015 8:35:30 Goldman Contrarian Joins Chorus Warning on Bond-Market Liquidity By Cordell Eddings (Bloomberg) -- Add Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s chief credit strategist to the list of market participants concerned about bond-market liquidity. Charles Himmelberg joined the chorus as the inventory of corporate bonds held by the Federal Reserve’s 22 primary dealers fell below zero last week for the [...]
Last week Standard and Poors announced the upgrade of Qantas' credit rating and its long awaited return to Investment Grade. This is a significant achievement given the overall slowdown of the Australian economy and is something which has been years in planning. As stated in our previous research notes, following weak FY14 results Qantas' management launched a thorough, all-encompassing transformation program which aimed to streamline the company [...]
In a week filled with uncertainty the bond market outperformed with treasuries rallying across the curve. In Australia the Credit Indices outperformed equities (slightly) as Telstra (announcement from the ACCC), BHP (completion of huge Hybrid issue), Origin Energy (WTI Oil dropped ~8% from its recent high) and Westpac announced its $3.5billion capital raising. New issuance was again limited to a [...]
Aurizon held its investor day on October 7th, at which it outlined its transformation program to deliver further cost reductions and productivity benefits totalling $310-$380m for the 3 fiscal years FY16 to FY18, which are crucial to achieve its target of delivering an Operating Ratio (OR) of 70% by FY18, ie an EBIT margin of 30% (versus an OR of 74.3% [...]
Beginning of September, AGL disclosed that it completed the sale of its 50% participating interest in the 420MW MacArthur Wind Farm for $532m. This was earlier than expected as the company had guided for "first half of FY16" but in-line price-wise as it had anticipated a $500m price tag. It is an important milestone in AGL's target of $1bn of [...]
Both the share price and subordinated notes have recently experienced a rebound in their price: The share price has recovered from $8.99 on September 30th to above $12 currently; Crown Subordinated Notes are trading back above par ($100) after having reached a low of $98 on 15 September 2015; Similarly Crown Subordinated Notes II are trading back at $93, after having reached a [...]
Credit markets were partially open last week but not particularly active and investor confidence was low due to continuing stock market volatility. It is difficult to gauge investor confidence at present, but press reports over the weekend that BHP Billiton was postponing their hybrid capital raising to global investors as a result of weak credit markets suggests institutional confidence in the credit markets is low. It is our understanding that no decision [...]
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