Europe’s back in the news: A broad market selloff was triggered Wednesday morning by the crumbling of the centre-right government of Portuguese prime minister Pedro Passos Coelho, which has been rocked by the resignations of …
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July 2, 2013
Hands up who’s happy it’s not June! Witness the record $61.7 billion of redemptions in U.S.-listed bond mutual funds and exchange-traded funds through June 24, according to TrimTabs Investment Research. That sum broke the previous …
MAPF Portfolio Composition: June 2013
Turnover picked up with the downturn in June, to about 11%. 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 …
June 28, 2013
Nothing happened today. It was another day of solid, if slowing, recovery for the Canadian preferred share market, with PerpetualPremiums winning 22bp, FixedResets up 15bp and DeemedRetractibles gaining 5bp. There is another lengthy Performance Highlights …
June 27, 2013
The Fed is trying to get the show back on the road: Federal Reserve officials stepped up their campaign to stem an increase in long-term borrowing costs that threatens to blunt the U.S. expansion and …
June 26, 2013
Who says Canada’s big financial institutions aren’t responsive and socially forward-looking? They have demonstrated yet again their concern about the financial comfort of the mentally deficient: A group including Royal Bank of Canada and five …
June 25, 2013
In today’s news, a politician announced that insurance companies have lots of money so people should be encouraged to build on floodplains: Insurance companies are between a rock and a hard place. The potential cost …
June 24, 2013
Nice quote from Richard Fisher of the Dallas Fed: Investors shouldn’t overreact to the central bank’s plans to reduce the pace of asset purchases, Fisher said in an interview with the Financial Times published today …
DF.PR.A 2012 Annual Report
Dividend 15 Split Corp. II has released its Annual Report to November 30, 2012. DF / DF.PR.A Performance Instrument OneYear ThreeYears SinceInception Whole Unit +10.89% +8.01% +0.91% DF.PR.A +5.38% +5.38% +5.38% DF +22.03% +12.32% -2.78% …
June 21, 2013
I noted on June 19 that James Bullard of the St. Louis Fed had dissented against the latest decision. He has taken the unusual – but certainly not unknown – step of explaining why: Federal …