Moody’s points out that the stock of US investment grade corporate bonds is heavily weighted towards lesser credits: It would be remiss not to add that the risk profile of the US investment-grade corporate bond …
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FTN Annual Report 2012
Financial 15 Split Corp. has released its Annual Report to November 30, 2012. FTN / FTN.PR.A Performance Instrument OneYear ThreeYears FiveYears SinceInception Whole Unit +14.66% +1.99% -3.12% +2.24% FTN.PR.A +5.38% +5.38% +5.38% +5.37% FTN +44.61% …
LFE.PR.B 2012 Annual Report
Canadian Life Companies Split Corp. has released its Annual Report to November 30, 2012. LFE / LFE.PR.B* Performance Instrument OneYear ThreeYears FiveYears SinceInception Whole Unit +16.82% -1.11% -9.39% -2.29% LFE.PR.B* +5.82% +5.83% +5.47% +5.43% LFE …
March 8, 2013
The US reported a good jobs number: ob growth surged last month as automakers, builders and retailers pushed the unemployment rate to a four-year low, defying concerns that budget battles in Washington would harm the …
March 7, 2013
I have a little difficulty with the definition of “skilled workers” in the following but it’s nice to see people who can actually do things in demand: After spending years searching for enough crude to …
March 6, 2013
The Bank of Canada statement held no surprises: Canada’s economy grew by 0.6 per cent at annual rates in the fourth quarter of 2012, with solid growth across most domestic components of GDP offset by …
March 5, 2013
The Europeans are backing away from austerity: European finance ministers opened the way for looser budget policies after a backlash against austerity thrust Italy into political limbo and shattered months of relative stability in European …
BPO Downgraded to Pfd-3 [Stable] by DBRS
DBRS has announced that it: has today downgraded the Issuer Rating and Senior Unsecured Debt of Brookfield Office Properties Inc. (Brookfield or the Company) to BBB from BBB (high), and the Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Shares, …
March 4, 2013
Mark Gimein writes an interesting piece titled The Reason Wall Street Got So Rich in Two Charts: The New York City data, though, are compelling. University of Chicago economists Steven N. Kaplan and Joshua Rauh …
MAPF Portfolio Composition: February, 2013
Turnover plunged in February to less than 1%. 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 …