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Dealers of private EMTNs: Non-syndicated deals for <= €300m excluding financial repackaged SPVs, GSE issuers, self-led deals and issues with a term of < 365 days

Royal London Asset Management has launched two high yield funds.

European regulators this week took a step towards imposing a variable net asset value model on money market funds, an unpopular move in the industry. But fund managers appear resigned to the changes.

Hedge funds — for so long the villains of the sovereign debt crisis in the eyes of European leaders — are at the heart of the peripheral eurozone sovereigns’ market access revival.

Kommuninvest got its 2013 private placement issuance off to a start on Monday, placing a Skr400m ($63.3m) five year floating rate note through Danske Bank.

Royal London Asset Management has launched two high yield funds, hoping to meet investor demand for higher yielding products. The funds were launched on Friday, are Dublin-based and have sterling as their base currency.

SSA Markets this week unveiled several exciting new features to help you get to grips with sovereign, supranational and agency bond markets.

The European Union will step up its use of private placements in 2013 after years of sporadic issuance and could tempt demand for private placements from outside its traditional German investor base, according to bankers.

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) should clarify that the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive is not intended to apply to structured issues, according to the Joint Associations Committee on Retail Structured Products. Structured issues are capital markets issuances and not funds, and are already regulated within other EU directives, said the JAC.

Mirabaud has launched a global high yield fund, which will allocate equal shares of its portfolio to Europe and the US. This underlines fund manager Andrew Lake’s view that the European high yield market offers attractive opportunities.

Dealers of private EMTNs: Non-syndicated deals for <= €300m excluding financial repackaged SPVs, GSE issuers, self-led deals and issues with a term of < 365 days