Markets are “still underestimating” the potential for above-target inflation, according to a recent note from BlackRock Investment Institute.
Sustainability as an investment theme looks set to be a permanent feature of the asset management landscape. One sustainable asset class that is gaining increasing prominence is ‘green bonds’, or bonds in which the proceeds must be spent on projects that support the environment. But how keen are investors to “greenify” their portfolios?
LedgerEdge, an ecosystem for corporate bond trading, has selected Exactpro to deliver functional testing and ensure the resilience of its global corporate bond trading platform powered by distributed ledger technology.
FINCAD, a specialist in providing pricing, modelling, and risk analytics, has partnered with Fite Analytics, an innovator and provider of bond data and analytics solutions, to expand its derivatives analytics services with comprehensive fixed income data and insights.
Mirabaud Asset Management has been awarded the SRI label in France for its Mirabaud – Convertible Bonds Europe Fund.
BondIT Global, a provider of fixed income technology, has further enhanced its Scorable Credit Research for more comprehensive risk monitoring of corporate bonds and credit spreads.
Specialist fixed income manager, BlueBay Asset Management (BlueBay), has launched a strategy which enables fixed income investors to allocate for positive impact by investing in liquid public debt markets.
Financial services provider CGS-CIMB and private capital platform iSTOX have announced the issuance of a short-term debt instrument in the form of digital securities.
CEIBA Investments Limited has become the first Cuban focused investment trust to list convertible bonds on The International Stock Exchange (TISE).
The convertible bond market expansion shows signs of further acceleration this year, with deals now coming from a broader variety of issuers than those of the tech sector, or the re-opening and recovery plays such as airlines, that drove issuance in the first pandemic-led lockdown of a year ago, says Justin Craib-Cox, co-manager of the RWC Global Convertibles fund.