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Convertible bond bankers are on to something. Most equity bankers spend their time when markets dry up worrying where the next deal is going to come from, talking up dire markets and setting new high scores on Brickbreaker. Not so for the convertible bond banker.
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Corporate treasurers and bank funding officials who are pushing ahead with roadshows are meeting a depressed investor base, one for whom low-yielding Treasury paper has almost never looked more attractive. What to do when confronted with an empty room or, at best, a dour-faced audience nursing their losses and who are showing no signs of taking on new risk? I have a few suggestions.
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The Federal Reserve was once the steward of bond and equity markets worldwide, back in the days when Alan Greenspan considered stock markets a key economic indicator and traders started to rely on the ‘Greenspan put’ rather than old-fashioned hedging. That was always a poor way of running a central bank — and Ben Bernanke should now try to do less, not more.
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It is perfectly natural to get excited by brief exceptions to an established rule. There is something human about it, about seeing oscillations in markets, or central bank speeches, or pay packets, or conversations with your wife of 20 years, as representing a break with the past. But usually things go back to the way they were before, and all our excitement comes to nothing.
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Asia is getting richer, it seems — and the really rich are really growing in number. There are more than a million high net worth individuals in Asia and that figure could more than double in the next four years, according to a recent report from CLSA Asia Pacific Markets. What should the lucky souls do with all this new wealth?
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CLSA Asia Pacific Markets has demonstrated over the last few years that it has a knack of surprising those attending its Asian investor forum with special — and often rather oddball — celebrity guests. But will George Clooney, its latest pick, be able to cheer up a battered investor base?