Benefits of being a Wholesale Client - Ratings

Being a Wholesale Client can impact the choices you can make as a bond investor. We feel it is an important classification to be aware of as it significantly improves your choice of available bonds, and so we are going back through the Benefits of being a Wholesale Client series as a recap.

Where to after Hybrids

The bank hybrid market is very large: there’s consistently been between $A35bn and $A40bn on issue for the last five years. In December last year, APRA confirmed that Australian banks would no longer be able to use so-called “Hybrid Capital” or “AT1s” as part of their capital structure.

US Tariffs - Part Two

Understanding the effect of US tariffs on the rest of the world is mostly about second and third order effects, and weighing up which effect is going to be the strongest.

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