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• Australasian government-sector issuer profiles

  Profiles of all the key government-sector issuers in Australia and New Zealand, including credit, outstanding debt and issuance strategy data.

• Australasian government-sector issuers' funding views

  In January 2017, KangaNews asked Australia and New Zealand’s most significant government-sector borrowers to share their views on funding strategy, liquidity conditions, issuance avenues and demand profile. The sovereign, agency and semi-government issuers explain how their strategies attempt to deliver consistency even as they adapt to both market realities and the ever-changing nature of their funding tasks.

• Issuer Q&A section one

  Exclusive insights from the AOFM, NZDMO, Efic and NZLGFA.

• Issuer Q&A section two

  One-one-one interviews with WATC, TCV, SAFA, QTC and TCorp.

• On the up?

  At the start of 2017, New Zealand’s economy and bond market are playing a role that has become increasingly familiar when it comes to the comparison with Australia: the same, but different. Both countries are on high alert for the impact of global developments on their trading status, but New Zealand’s rates environment is starting to swing towards a potential upwards cycle.

• Seeking safe-haven status

  Global events of  2016 have, among many other consequences, served to make Australia’s political environment look relatively stable by comparison. Australia may have developed a habit of changing prime ministers on a more regular basis than is strictly desirable – five times in less than a decade, only twice as the result of  elections – but political risk has never been high on investors’ checklists when...

• WA's budget improvement

  KangaNews spoke to key Western Australian executives following the 2016/17 government mid-year financial projections statement.