July 9, 2018

Let’s give three cheers for regulation!

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says its rules, along with federal laws, stop employees from improperly cashing in on their government service. But how adequate are those revolving door controls? Science has found that much like outside advisers, regular employees at the agency, headquartered in Silver Spring, Maryland, often reap later rewards—jobs or consulting work—from the makers of the drugs they previously regulated.

FDA staffers play a pivotal role in drug approvals, presenting evidence to the agency’s advisory panels and influencing or making approval decisions. They are free to move to jobs in pharma, and many do; in a 2016 study in The BMJ, researchers examined the job histories of 55 FDA staff who had conducted drug reviews over a 9-year period in the hematologyoncology field. They found that 15 of the 26 employees who left the agency later worked or consulted for the biopharmaceutical industry.

HIMIPref™ Preferred Indices
These values reflect the December 2008 revision of the HIMIPref™ Indices

Values are provisional and are finalized monthly
Index Mean
Current
Yield
(at bid)
Median
YTW
Median
Average
Trading
Value
Median
Mod Dur
(YTW)
Issues Day’s Perf. Index Value
Ratchet 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 0.4718 % 3,015.9
FixedFloater 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 0.4718 % 5,534.1
Floater 3.34 % 3.56 % 71,486 18.40 4 0.4718 % 3,189.3
OpRet 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 0.0476 % 3,189.8
SplitShare 4.61 % 4.53 % 62,973 4.93 5 0.0476 % 3,809.3
Interest-Bearing 0.00 % 0.00 % 0 0.00 0 0.0476 % 2,972.2
Perpetual-Premium 5.64 % -13.03 % 57,501 0.09 9 0.0416 % 2,903.0
Perpetual-Discount 5.38 % 5.46 % 55,073 14.73 26 0.0379 % 2,984.2
FixedReset 4.32 % 4.64 % 136,806 5.59 106 0.1284 % 2,546.7
Deemed-Retractible 5.14 % 5.93 % 62,583 5.49 27 0.0608 % 2,972.9
FloatingReset 3.26 % 3.69 % 33,334 3.40 9 0.3493 % 2,824.3
Performance Highlights
Issue Index Change Notes
SLF.PR.H FixedReset 1.06 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Hard Maturity
Maturity Date : 2025-01-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 22.00
Bid-YTW : 5.79 %
BAM.PR.B Floater 1.07 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2048-07-09
Maturity Price : 17.03
Evaluated at bid price : 17.03
Bid-YTW : 3.56 %
PWF.PR.T FixedReset 1.08 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2048-07-09
Maturity Price : 23.51
Evaluated at bid price : 24.22
Bid-YTW : 4.54 %
MFC.PR.B Deemed-Retractible 1.09 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Hard Maturity
Maturity Date : 2025-01-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 22.20
Bid-YTW : 6.89 %
MFC.PR.C Deemed-Retractible 1.31 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Hard Maturity
Maturity Date : 2025-01-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 21.63
Bid-YTW : 7.20 %
SLF.PR.G FixedReset 1.52 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Hard Maturity
Maturity Date : 2025-01-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 20.00
Bid-YTW : 6.98 %
SLF.PR.J FloatingReset 1.67 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Hard Maturity
Maturity Date : 2025-01-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 20.04
Bid-YTW : 6.61 %
TD.PF.D FixedReset 1.80 % YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2048-07-09
Maturity Price : 23.30
Evaluated at bid price : 24.34
Bid-YTW : 4.80 %
Volume Highlights
Issue Index Shares
Traded
Notes
BMO.PR.R FloatingReset 135,777 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2018-08-25
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.10
Bid-YTW : -3.08 %
BAM.PF.H FixedReset 53,444 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2020-12-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.95
Bid-YTW : 3.46 %
BAM.PF.B FixedReset 53,000 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2048-07-09
Maturity Price : 22.73
Evaluated at bid price : 23.36
Bid-YTW : 5.00 %
TD.PR.S FixedReset 41,000 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2018-08-30
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 24.97
Bid-YTW : 2.80 %
TD.PR.T FloatingReset 40,679 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2018-08-30
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 24.97
Bid-YTW : 0.85 %
RY.PR.I FixedReset 37,375 YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2019-02-24
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.08
Bid-YTW : 3.71 %
There were 12 other index-included issues trading in excess of 10,000 shares.
Wide Spread Highlights
Issue Index Quote Data and Yield Notes
EIT.PR.A SplitShare Quote: 25.16 – 26.16
Spot Rate : 1.0000
Average : 0.5651

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Soft Maturity
Maturity Date : 2024-03-14
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.16
Bid-YTW : 4.76 %

TRP.PR.A FixedReset Quote: 20.24 – 21.40
Spot Rate : 1.1600
Average : 0.7438

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2048-07-09
Maturity Price : 20.24
Evaluated at bid price : 20.24
Bid-YTW : 4.88 %

PWF.PR.Q FloatingReset Quote: 21.54 – 22.41
Spot Rate : 0.8700
Average : 0.5513

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2048-07-09
Maturity Price : 21.26
Evaluated at bid price : 21.54
Bid-YTW : 3.47 %

BAM.PF.E FixedReset Quote: 23.15 – 24.00
Spot Rate : 0.8500
Average : 0.6100

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Limit Maturity
Maturity Date : 2048-07-09
Maturity Price : 22.77
Evaluated at bid price : 23.15
Bid-YTW : 4.98 %

GWO.PR.T Deemed-Retractible Quote: 23.77 – 24.25
Spot Rate : 0.4800
Average : 0.3015

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Hard Maturity
Maturity Date : 2025-01-31
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 23.77
Bid-YTW : 6.13 %

GWO.PR.F Deemed-Retractible Quote: 25.70 – 26.15
Spot Rate : 0.4500
Average : 0.2915

YTW SCENARIO
Maturity Type : Call
Maturity Date : 2018-08-08
Maturity Price : 25.00
Evaluated at bid price : 25.70
Bid-YTW : -24.36 %

Leave a Reply

You must be logged in to post a comment.