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Aerospace and control systems group Honeywell is poised to tap investors in both Europe and the US as levfin markets return to action next week. The firm will look to high yield buyers to help fund the separation of subsidiary Garrett Motion, but a portion of investment grade debt will also be on the table. -
Three Chinese local government financing vehicles (LGFVs) priced dollar bonds this week, despite a recent default in the onshore debt market.
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China Aoyuan Property Group was back in the offshore market on Wednesday for the fourth time in as many months, using a dual-currency transaction to settle the last $300m of its fundraising quota.
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Environmental, social and governance investors have done a fine job of making their approach accepted and now mainstream in a money-driven industry. Along the way, they started saying it was all pragmatic, not about principles. That was a fiction, and under the pressure of climate change, it is being replaced with a more rounded philosophy. Jon Hay reports.
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Many bond investors now say they engage with borrowers on ESG issues. Companies are noticing, and a virtuous circle is beginning to turn. But much of the conversation is still very gentle and diffuse, and not concentrated at the point of capital raising. As Jon Hay reports, more ambitious engagements to change whole industries lie in the future.
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European corporate bond investors were pleasantly surprised to be offered two new deals last week before the traditional return of the market following the August bank holiday in the UK. Those bonds did nothing, however, to curb their appetite for a full-throated autumn of issuance
