Nothing happened today. It was another mixed day for the Canadian preferred share market, with PerpetualDiscounts up 15bp, FixedResets down 9bp and DeemedRetractibles gaining 1bp. Volatility was average – by long-term standards! – but comprised …
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July 15, 2013
Are the bond vigilantes hanging up their spurs? U.S. fixed-income mutual funds attracted investor deposits last week, rebounding from redemptions spurred by speculation that the Federal Reserve would scale back its unprecedented stimulus, while bond …
DGS.PR.A Annual Report 2012
Dividend Growth Split Corp. has released its Annual Report to December 31, 2012. DGS / DGS.PR.A Performance Instrument OneYear ThreeYears Whole Unit +13.2% +7.8% DGS.PR.A +5.4% +5.4% DGS +26.3% +11.4% S&P/TSX Composite Index +7.2% +4.8% …
July 12, 2013
Nothing happened today. It was another day of solid recovery for the Canadian preferred share market, with PerpetualDiscounts winning 26bp, FixedResets gaining 10bp and DeemedRetractibles up 15bp. The Performance Highlights table is suitably bulky, comprised …
July 11, 2013
Sorry this is so late, folks! Summertime and the living is easy! More Fed-watching! Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke called for maintaining accommodation even as the minutes of policy makers’ June meeting showed them …
July 10, 2013
It’s a Fed-Watching Frenzy! “The minutes largely reiterated what the chairman said in June,” Ryan Larson, the Chicago-based head of U.S. equity trading at RBC Global Asset Management (U.S.) Inc., said by e-mail. His firm …
July 9, 2013
The US is taking effective action on bank capital ratios: Capital standards at the biggest U.S. lenders would rise to 5 percent of assets for parent companies and 6 percent for their banking units under …
July 8, 2013
You think you’ve had a bad time in the markets for the past year? Here’s a guy who’s had a bad time in the markets for the past year: Brazilian billionaire Eike Batista lost more …
July 5, 2013
Nice article on pension derisking: Such pension “derisking” approaches include lump-sum payouts to vested, terminated employees; liability-driven investment (LDI) strategies that match up plan assets with pension liabilities by moving from equities to long-term bonds; …
July 4, 2013
There are rumours that European rates will continue low: The European Central Bank will keep interest rates at record lows for an extended period and could yet cut them further, the bank’s chief, Mario Draghi, …