Covered bonds: A final-quarter rush

The market has coped well with debut deals from Sweden, the UK, Norway and Portugal; more are imminent.

As the final quarter of 2006 got under way the opinion in most parts of the debt capital raising world was that market activity would slow during the final few weeks of the year. The clear exception is the covered bond sector, where new names and new jurisdictions are providing a last minute spurt of activity.

New names are always more exciting for investors than frequent issuers; normally debut issuers provide diversity as well as the opportunity to pick up extra yield.

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