TD Bank is really pushing their market growth GICs; does anybody have any pricing information on them? I assume they’re a very expensive product even though they’re subsidized by deposit insurance. The first batch of …
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MAPF Portfolio Composition: August, 2013
Turnover increased in August, to about 12%. There is extreme segmentation in the marketplace, with OSFI’s NVCC rule changes in February 2011 having had the effect of splitting the formerly relatively homogeneous Straight Perpetual class …
August 30, 2013
Bloomberg has some chatter on the Fed derby: Investors are increasingly seeking advice on how the potential nomination of Lawrence Summers as chairman of the Federal Reserve instead of Vice Chairman Janet Yellen might influence …
August 29, 2013
In the latest tapering chatter: Tapering talk has already sent 10-year note yields up 120 basis points. Almost the entire increase has been in the real yield, not in inflation expectations. Long-term interest rates aren’t …
DBRS Confirms L at Pfd-3 After Review
DBRS has announced that it: has today confirmed the Issuer Rating, Medium-Term Notes and Debentures ratings of Loblaw Companies Limited (Loblaw or the Company) at BBB, its Commercial Paper rating at R-2 (middle) and its …
August 28, 2013
The SEC and five other agencies in the US alphabet soup have release a securitization risk-retention rule for comment: The original proposal generally measured compliance with the risk retention requirements based on the par value …
August 27, 2013
Is there high-closing in the FX market? In the space of 20 minutes on the last Friday in June, the value of the U.S. dollar jumped 0.57 percent against its Canadian counterpart, the biggest move …
August 26, 2013
The credit rating agencies won a round: Moody’s Corp. (MCO) won dismissal of a lawsuit by a pension fund claiming the credit ratings firm made false statements about its independence and objectivity. U.S. District Judge …
CIR.PR.A To Propose Term Extension
Manulife Financial has announced: that the Funds’ boards of directors have approved a proposal for each Fund to, among other things, grant securityholders an additional option to allow them to continue their investment in each …
August 23, 2013
The evisceration of five hundred years of bankruptcy law and the politicization of the process is having an effect: Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) and JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) are among banks whose debt …