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Canadian Fixed Income: Can The Party Continue?

06 August 2010

The 2010 Greenwich Share Leaders in Canadian Fixed-Income winners named

The past 12 months have been heady times for Canada's fixed-income markets: Institutional trading volume soared in Canada while slowing in the United States, investors both domestic and foreign directed new assets into Canadian bonds, and global dealers that had retreated from the Canadian market during the global crisis returned in force. Meanwhile, Canada's leading domestic fixed-income dealers competed aggressively for talent in the hot market at home while expanding into the United States and other countries. After this exhilarating run, dealers and investors now face the question: Can the boom continue?

"The past year was truly an extraordinary period that was driven by the confluence of several extraordinary factors," says Greenwich Associates consultant Peter Kane. "But some of the factors that contributed to this boom now appear in doubt. A loss of strength in the...


 

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