(Bloomberg) — For the hundreds of investors claiming to target net-zero portfolios, their largest holdings are often their biggest problem. That’s because the $64 trillion global market for sovereign bonds is largely inhospitable to sustainability-minded investing. Why? There are only a limited number of issuers (fewer than 150 globally compared with more than 70,000 corporate bond…
PUBLISHED : 26 Nov 2024 at 16:26 Small Medium Large People discuss financial deals at Money Expo 2024 Bangkok on May 16, 2024. (Photo: Varuth Hirunyatheb) … Read the original article here
Banks’ NPLs in Thailand at three-year high as debt-relief planned The Edge Markets MY Read the original article here
Albanese will make the announcement at a rally with South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas on Sunday. It will be the first in a series of speeches over coming weeks in which the prime minister will outline his second-term agenda after weeks plagued by his off-taste Tourette’s insult, the purchase of a $4.3 million holiday home,…
The federal government has rising university student fees in its sights for the next stage of its university debt overhaul, with a government source saying a one-off 20 per cent cut to debts is an interim measure. Labor has made an election promise to wipe an average of $5,500 from existing student HECS debts and…
The Albanese Labor Government will raise the minimum repayment threshold for student loans and cut repayment rates to make the repayment system fairer for all Australians with a student debt – around 3 million people. From 1 July next year, the Government will reduce the amount Australians with a student debt have to repay per…
(Nov 26): Thai banks’ non-performing loans last quarter jumped to their highest level in three years as troubled corporate and individual borrowers continued to struggle to repay debt, though the Bank of Thailand announced progress in talks with the finance ministry on relief measures. Some 2.97% of commercial banks’ outstanding loans were non-performing at the…
Three million Australians will see $3 billion wiped from their student debt after the Albanese Government passed legislation through the Parliament tonight. This legislation fixes the way indexation is calculated on student debt and will be backdated to 1 June 2023. The Universities Accord (Student Support and Other Measures) Bill 2024 caps the HELP indexation…
Thai Bad Loan Ratio Hits Three-Year High as Debt-Relief Planned Bloomberg Read the original article here
The ridiculous co-opting of American policy fads by the Albanese government continues unabated. When the government adjusted the HELP indexation rate in the May budget, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese deliberately invoked the Biden administration’s (unconstitutional) student loan forgiveness, saying “We’re wiping more than $3 billion in student debt.” Loading… Read the original article here