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LOCAL CURRENCY BONDS (Published Date :11/1/2012)

From yield to maturity
Category :Asia
With fears about investing in Asia at an all time low, the riskiness that came to define the region during the Asian financial crisis in 1997 appears set to leave without trace. After a decade of risk-driven high yields that brought breakneck growth to the local currency bond markets, conditions are finally easing.
Yields to head downward, market quality improving
By Toby Garrod
Category :Global
Institutional investors may soon see higher yielding opportunities start to ebb in the Asian local currency bond markets as relentless demand pushes down yields and as the number of issuers’ starts to decline with the dwindling need for external financing due to bulging coffers – tilting the supply demand balance in favour of the issuers.
Asian fixed income markets offer array of choices to power up portfolios
Category :Asia,Korea,Singapore,Europe,U.S.A.
Global investment trends have aligned in clear favour of Asian debt markets, with low yielding debt from the unstable developed world proving no match for the booming emerging markets of Asia.
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