Investors are clamoring for pandemic bonds. Here's how

Investors are clamoring for pandemic bonds. Here's how Wall Street banks are responding.

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Published 23 May 2020

· Investors have been eagerly buying up pandemic bonds — debt instruments directly financing efforts to fight Covid-19.
· Bonds tied to financing social projects like housing, healthcare, and education have long lagged beyond their environmental cousin, the green bond.
· But social bonds have surged in response to the...

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Investors are clamoring for pandemic bonds. Here's how Wall Street banks are responding.

Investors are clamoring for pandemic bonds. Here's how Wall Street banks are responding.

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