The Bank of England has released its April, 2008, Financial Stability Report and it’s excellent. There’s way too much good stuff in it to make a series of extracts of managable size, but I will …
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Best and Worst Performers: April 2008
These are total returns, with dividends presumed to have been reinvested at the bid price on the ex-date. The list has been restricted to issues in the HIMIPref™ indices. Issue Index DBRS Rating Monthly Performance …
MAPF Portfolio Composition : April, 2008
Trading slowed down somewhat in April to about 35% of portfolio value. “Slow” is a relative term! Trades were, as ever, triggered by a desire to exploit transient mispricing in the preferred share market (which …
GPA.PR.A Downgraded to P-4 by S&P
Gatehouse Capital Inc. has announced: Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services lowered the rating of Global Credit Pref Corp.’s (TSX:GPA.PR.A) preferred shares on April 29 to P-4. The rating on the preferred shares of Global Credit …
DBRS Downgrades Loblaws but Weston Unaffected
DBRS: has today downgraded the long-term ratings of Loblaw Companies Limited (Loblaw or the Company) to BBB from BBB (high), maintaining the Negative trend. At the same time, DBRS has downgraded the Company’s short-term rating …
PIC.PR.A Downgraded to Pfd-3(high) by DBRS
DBRS: has today downgraded the Preferred Shares issued by Mulvihill Premium Canadian Bank (the Company) to Pfd-3 (high) from Pfd-2 with a Stable trend. The rating had been placed Under Review with Developing Implications on …
MAPF: Response to a Potential Client's Concerns
There was a very gratifying exchange on FWF about Malachite Aggressive Preferred Fund that (so far!) has included the following concerns about the fund: The outperformance of Malachite fund is indeed commendable and tempting for …
IIF Releases Interim Report
The Institute of International Finance has announced: A report embracing the critical issues in today’s financial markets has been published by the Institute of International Finance (IIF), the global association of financial institutions. “The leadership …
April 8, 2008
Naked Capitalism points out that banks’ balance sheets tend to bloat in times of economic stress (this has been true for a long time – see Banks’ Advantage in Hedging Liquidity Risk) but manages to …
FTU.PR.A : How to Analyze?
In the list of March’s good and bad performers, I suggested that FTU.PR.A should, perhaps, be analyzed as an equity substitute … I’ve been thinking a bit more about this, on a very casual basis. …