Total U.S. annuity sales increased 4% to $63.6 billion, according to preliminary results from the Secure Retirement Institute U.S. Individual Annuity Sales Survey, with fixed products benefitting from ...
Investment firms from BlackRock Inc. to Tikehau Capital have started to offer fixed-maturity funds focused on European high-yield debt, helping fuel persistent inflows into junk bonds. That’s driven ...
Wall Street’s do-good investment boom is finally taking notice of the credit markets. Sustainable investment assets grew 37 percent last year, according to Bloomberg data, but the majority of those ...
Slowing global economic growth, softening commodities and the retreat of the loonie all suggest that a slowdown in trading activity could be in store The Canadian fixed income business is booming, and ...
Soaring interest rates have rekindled Americans’ penchant for fixed-income investments like bonds and money market funds, but experts warn that they should be prepared for the taxes. Higher rates hurt ...
LONG-TERM fixed rate mortgages hit the headlines when five European banks joined forces to back the creation of the European Mortgage Finance Agency, which would offer US-style 25-year or even 30-year ...