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The Bankers Investment Trust, a London-listed investment trust which traces its origins back to 1888, has sold a £74.5m-equivalent private placement. While there are slim pickings for PP investors looking to lend to financial institutions in Europe, investment trusts have provided a steady stream of opportunities.
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Korea Midland Power Co steered its $300m bond through tough market conditions on Monday, having little option but to offer investors a premium to ensure decent secondary performance of its notes.
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Europe’s manufacturing sector faces a supply chain problem, with production struggling to cope with booming demand as economies reopen. Fixed income investors and analysts reckon this will likely be a temporary issue, and there is plenty of room for performance in bonds from the manufacturing sector.
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German filter maker Mann+Hummel has closed its innovative Schuldschein, which had both green and sustainability-linked components, at €150m-equivalent in dollars and euros.
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The Berkeley Group, one of the UK’s biggest home builders, has mandated for a green bond, a week after high grade corporate issuers faced such a torrid time in the sterling market that some bankers called the market shut until the autumn.
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Credit spreads for corporate borrowers from sectors that will benefit the most from reopening from lockdowns are drifting wider as coronavirus infections rise thanks to the spread of the delta variant. Industries already battered by the pandemic face a rough autumn in capital markets if there is another major global wave of the virus.