A Guide to Asian High Yield Bonds: Financing Growth Enterprises (Wiley Finance)

A book on high yield, written by bond market professionals, is exactly what issuers have been waiting for. The elaborations on structures and covenant packages are crystal clear and help to navigate through the intricacies of the product.

Arsjad Rasjid
President Director
Indika Inti Energi

This book provides a valuable overview of the market. In particular, it offers in-depth analysis of the buy-side for Asian high yield and a detailed guide to structuring and executing transactions. We recommend it to any potential issuer.

Charles Chu
CFO
Agile Property Holdings Ltd.

This guide to the market provides a clear overview of high yield as a non-dilutive form of long term capital and serves as a useful reference material to all Asian growth enterprises. It is an easy to read and comprehensive reference work that will be of practical benefit to market users.

Roland To
Director - Strategic Planning
Galaxy Entertainment Group

We believe, as a firm, that out of contagion and chaos come opportunities. As the financial markets regain their footing after the subprime-induced credit crisis, we believe investors will find exciting opportunities in non-investment grade credit among other asset classes. A Guide to Asian High Yield Bonds will help investors get a handle on the high yield sector in Asia, which we are confident will hold great potential for investors going forward.

Brian Baker
Managing Director, Chief Executive Officer, Asia
Pacific Investment Management Company LLC (PIMCO)

A timely and well-researched addition to the finance literature. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the Asian high yield bond market.

Professor Moorad Choudhry
Department of Economics, London Metropolitan University

The Asian high yield market has grown at a rapid pace in the past few years. A new reference book to track the developments is a useful and timely addition for all market participants.

Geoffrey King
Director
PMA Investment Advisors Ltd.

Given the relative newness of the Asian high yield market and inexperience of most regional investors and issuers with high yield credit instruments, a reference book on the market should prove invaluable for illuminating the attractiveness and merits of the asset class.

Eugene Kim
Chief Investment Officer
Tribridge Investment Partners Ltd., Hong Kong

Florian Schmidt is Managing Director and Head of Debt Capital Markets, Asia, with ING Wholesale Banking, based in Singapore. He has been professionally involved in Asia’s debt capital markets for 15 years. During that period he has originated and executed a large number of bond issues across Asia, including high grade, high yield, public, private, G3 and local currency offerings, some of which have been recognized with awards. Notable within the emerging markets and high yield context were, amongt others, a US$125m floating rate note for Bank Mandiri in 2001, representing the return of post-Crisis Indonesia to the international debt capital markets; a US$150m Euro MTN Programme plus takedown for the Trade & Development Bank of Mongolia in 2007, the first ever from that country; and a complex US$250million senior notes issue for Indika Inti Energi in 2007, which was named Best High Yield Bond 2007 by FinanceAsia.

Florian is the author of Asia’s Credit Markets—From High-Yield to High-Grade, a reference work published by Wiley & Sons (Asia) in 2004. He holds a Masters Degree in Business Administration from the University of Münster, Germany.

Adam Harper is a Vice President in ING’s Asian Debt Capital Markets team, based in Hong Kong. Before joining ING in November 2006, he was the Asia Editor of EuroWeek, covering the Asian high yield, high grade and local currency markets as well as having editorial responsibility for other capital markets coverage. At EuroWeek, he oversaw the publication of Asia’s High Yield Bond Markets: Financing Asia’s Growing Economies, a handbook on high yield in the region, and developed the newspaper’s Asian capital markets coverage through the creation of EuroWeek Asia, a dedicated Asian publication within the EuroWeek global edition. He has been a regular moderator of debt capital markets discussions at Euromoney conferences across Asia and elsewhere. Adam graduated from the University of Cambridge in 2001 with an honors degree in English.