FOR YEARS, ASIA’S high-yield debt market has been a nearly market, offering early promise only to fade later in the investment cycle. Last year all that changed. According to JPMorgan, Asian high-yield issues returned 11.45% in 2006, comfortably beating 10-year US treasury bills and investment-grade corporate and emerging market bonds. New issuance from Asia excluding Japan and Australia hit a record $7.7 billion (see chart), fuelled by foreign investment flows into the region and ample local liquidity.
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