The leading Chinese credit rating agency intends to use global criteria to rate an offshore corporate bond issue later this year, says its Hong Kong-based chief rating officer.
Tag: China bonds
First interbank bond issuer collapses
More defaults are expected as China’s state-owned Guangxi Nonferrous Metals Group has become the first interbank bond issuer to go bankrupt.
StanChart sees big change coming for China bonds
Chinese onshore bonds could be included in global benchmark indices as soon as this year, said Carmen Ling, Standard Chartered Hong Kong global head of RMB solutions for corporate and institutional banking.
Aviva Investors and Hermes avoid China
Concern over credit quality and liquidity as well as transparency issues are barriers to investing in China fixed income and equities, the managers said.
Schroders rolls out China-focused multi-asset fund
The firm believes improving investor sentiment for China and the demand for income will attract investors to its China Asset Income Fund.
E Fund: China’s potential tightening poses risk
Minor tightening in China’s monetary policy could pose big risks for onshore bond investments, said Jeffrey Qi, portfolio manager at E Fund Management in Hong Kong.
China’s E Fund plans active and passive funds in EMEA
China concerns have shifted away from currency worries to rising defaults and the overall debt level, said Jessie Lam, head of European business at E Fund Management in Hong Kong.
CSOP sees strong inflows into China’s T-bonds
CSOP Asset Management said foreign institutional investors and some big holders of the offshore RMB are buying China’s treasury bonds.
`Limitless’ access to China’s bond market
More details on expanding overseas investor access to China’s interbank bond market (CIBM) were announced, although tax issues have yet to be clarified.
China takes more steps to open bond market
The mainland’s provident and pension funds should bring up to $610bn into China’s interbank bond market (CIBM) after regulators open it to a wide range of foreign and domestic investors, analysts said.
