FIG investors’ search for yield reaches fever pitch

The fall in absolute yields to new record lows has heightened investors’ search for FIG bonds that offer an attractive pick-up. As a result, investors have favoured higher yielding senior non-preferred transactions from the eurozone periphery, ultra-long dated covered bonds and higher yielding central European and Asian covered bonds. By contrast, demand for lower yielding core European covered bonds, while still healthy, has begun to wane following the exuberant levels of demand witnessed in May.