Lynne Funk is Senior Director, Strategy and Content, Live Media - Municipal Finance. She leads and shapes The Bond Buyer's six major events, serving as host, moderator, thought leader and brand ambassador. Lynne also is charged with creating innovative live media formats, including new conferences, virtual summits and podcasts to help serve our municipal finance community. Lynne has nearly two decades of experience in the public finance industry. She was most recently Executive Editor of The Bond Buyer. Previously, she was a director at Municipal Market Analytics, Inc., and in the Policy and Public Advocacy for the Municipal Securities Division at the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association.
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The Bond Buyer is seeking industry-wide input on environmental, social and governance factors in the public finance space.
September 7 -
Supply clocks in at $5.987 billion for the holiday-shortened week. Municipal new-issue volume is still lagging demand with Bond Buyer 30-day visible supply at $10.30 billion, while Bloomberg shows net negative supply at $11.430 billion.
September 3 -
Refinitiv Lipper reported just over $1 billion of inflows into municipal bond mutual funds, an $800 million drop from a week prior, moving the four week moving average to $1.6 billion.
September 2 -
ICI reported $1.99 billion of inflows into municipal bond mutual funds, bringing the total to $69 billion for 2021.
September 1 -
Daily bid-wanteds totals per Bloomberg have fallen to an average par value below $450 million from $640 million per day during the first quarter and $549 million in the second.
August 31 -
The nearly 40% year-over-year decrease is a result of various factors including rising interest rates, other financing tools, such as forward delivery bonds, and simply that refundings are in less demand from issuers.
August 31 -
Returns of negative 0.40% would be the third-worst August performance of the past 10 years, according to Bloomberg data.
August 30 -
Municipal issuers with the biggest threats from physical climate risk also have the largest liabilities for carbon transition.
August 30 -
Experts agreed that Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell acknowledged the Fed could start tapering this year and that it would have no implications for liftoff, but not everyone was satisfied with what they heard.
August 27 -
Trades on alternative trading system platforms are smaller and more likely to involve securities with complex features, according to a new MSRB report.
August 27
