Shares & Derivatives
Swiber Holdings Winding Down – Uncertainty is Not Always your Best Friend
By Investment Moats  •  July 28, 2016
Imagine that your Private Banker introducing you to purchase a 4 year corporate bond with a yield of 7.1% in 2013 Then because its a bond, and upon the recommendation of your private banker to do bond leveraging you decide to purchase the bond with 50% leverage at less than 1.5% interest. Your leveraged yield becomes 12.70%. In a low yield environment for the well heeled, this looks great. Things will be bad but bonds should be safer than the company’s volatile equity isn’t it? When you invest you hope for the best. Sometimes, you just don’t want to accept that YOU can be the one that loses.

Swiber is Winding Down

Oil and Gas Player Swiber seems to be winding down. There is a furry of announcement this morning at 1 am. Every one is coming after them for money. And here is the announcement that ......
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By Investment Moats
Investment Moats is set up by Kyith Ng and have been around since 2005. He aims to share his experiences making sense of money, how money works and ways to grow his money. It hopes that by sharing his experiences, both good and bad, season investors can advice and critique his decisions and new investors can learn from them and find their own style ...
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